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It may be too early to ask, but - do those "in the know" feel that the advanced security features that are supposed to be part of Vista will mean that users can dispense with third-party software like Norton Anti-Virus/Internet Security (firewall) and similar products?
Most companies and IT folks tell me that we will still need to run an third party software. While the security features are good they are not great.
I'm going to wait a long time to install Vista personally. Many bugs need to get sorted out and I'll let you folks do the sorting out for me.
I understand the biggest competition for Vista will be folks running XP and wanting to keep it and not upgrade. The hardware requirements of Vista will cause a boom in upgrading hardware as it does take a good amount to run it. Not all computers out there will be able to run this and will need to be pitched or upgraded.
Plus I hear that it will not let you install drivers that are not approved by microsoft, or that it will be more difficult to install items not approved by microsoft. And the license agreement, you don't own it, you lease it or something like that. Anyways, I got a ton of literature on it from CES and I'm not techno geek but the general words to me were not to install for a while.
XP works for me and I'm gonna stay with it until I can't use it or VISTA is proven itself.