With build 6000, Microsoft ended its traditional bug hunt party, finalized Vista and shipped it off to its manufacturing facilities. This was on the 8th of November, but yet the average consumer can’t get their hands on it until the end of January. What happens during this time interval?
The worldwide retail availability is currently set [...]

Over the past several years, Microsoft has practically done a one-eighty, becoming a lot more security conscious. This has become quite evident with XP’s Service Pack 2, which enabled the Windows firewall by default. Having the firewall automatically enabled was a major step forward, since it was the one major thing needed to protect the [...]