• 5 Years development - Original Code Name - Longhorn
  
• 15,000,000 or so lines of code
• Vista Programmers were allowed to blog to the outside world
• MS Cleaned house - dump lots of "do nothing items"
• Limits menus to 20 items
• Only 5% upgrade OS - 95% put new OS on their next computer
• 32 Bit version Max memory barrier - invest in 64 bit version (my opinion)
• System Utilities are toast
  
• HP not supporting (writing Vista drivers) for a lot of "older" hardware!
  

Protection

• Everyone has "Standard Accounts",
  
• When a change to the system is requested, the system will ask for the Administrator Password (Screen goes dark, box appears)
  
• Novices think it's "too much"
• Most XP users are set up as administrators (should be users and Log Into Administrator account (too cumbersome))
• Shuns other computers which have out of date virus definitions!
• NTFS only!

Other Features

• Voice Recognition built in - not quite as good as Dragon (no voice macros), but will hurt their business
  
• Mousless Maneuvering - Uses Tic Tac Toe gridding to zoom in on icon (using 3 numbers) or pixel (using 4 numbers) location

Virus Info

• Usual Virus life
1. Security Patch Released
2. Patch reverse engineered / disassembled as to see what the security hole is
3. Virus written and released
4. Virus hits machines before the patch does
• The above cycle is about 1 week on average