While I have been waiting to buy a new box and get off and running with Vista I have been reading. I admit I have always been a windows fan. If you started in DOS and windows 3.1 how could you resist. XP has proven to be a good OS and though right now I am reading many of switch to MAC comments, with more questions.

It is a difficult thought when one considers the things they would be missing. Provided they actually use their computer as a serious user. I admit even I am a bit torn over the single issue of how much work I am willing to give toward setting every perm on a daily basis. I have enough experience just with I.E. 7.0 to know I really do not care for labors of trusting sites and while the granularity is great, and security is improved no doubt about that fact.  

It has been my observeration that many people do not even have a firm grip of controlling security settings in their browsers. Which leads one to wonder is there a better way? It appears there is clearly no shortage of debate surrounding the OS.

Here are some articles on the topic.  <Bit-Net> <Uninspired> <Toms>