These are interesting times in the software world.

We have just had the release of IE7 and Firefox 2 which has got mixed reactions, but more on that later.

First I want to talk about another major release that is looming and if you are reading this, no doubt you will have heard of Vista at some point or other.

It seems like a life time since we first heard of Vista or Longhorn as it was back then.

Well now the madness has started with only days to go before Microsoft release Vista to manufacturers to start printing the DVD’s that will end up in the shops, we are seeing Vista mentioned everywhere.

If you buy a Dell or a HP computer now you can get a voucher which will allow you to upgrade your copy of Windows to a similar copy of Vista

This table which I have sourced from Paul Thurrott’s winsupersite.com explains how it may work in the US which I suspect will be the same if not too dissimilar in the UK.

Paul Thurrott has been covering the life of Vista from the Longhorn days and his site is a wealth of information and definitely worth checking out. I’ve been running Windows Vista mainly on VPC’s and as such I haven’t been able to get the full aero glass look and feel but even without that Vista is impressive.

But it isn’t all about looks, Vista has improved on previous version of windows in so many ways. Security is another one of those areas which is close to my heart and one that Microsoft couldn’t ignore so it is nice to see that the security model in Vista works.

In Windows XP you really needed to run the user accounts as just standard accounts for the best security but the way that they had been done just meant this was never feasible. Now this is no longer the case, the standard account type is actually a workable option.

I am really excited about Vista and already spec’ng out my next PC at Dell which is adding to the excitement, new OS new PC – what a Christmas this will be!

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