Monday, January 29, 2007

Vista For Business

If you read my other review of the new Vista Home products you may have noticed I was not too impressed. That opinion steps up a little with the new Vista Business version.This version is where you can really see and take advantage of the many new features. Though I would like to warn you again, that to take full advantage of these new features you will need a pretty strong machine. This is especially true in the graphics dept.

First, of course, are the before mentioned security improvements. On top of that, wehave improved integration with other office technologies, phone, fax, wireless, andhand held devices etc. There is improved network capabilities, new search and collaboration tools. The goal for Vista was to greatly improve the ways a businesscan search, create, store and share its data. There is a new file sharing wizard thatallows you to assign access privileges to other users on the same computer. One ofmy personal favorites is the collaboration tool, “Windows Meeting Space”.

With Meeting Space you can connect up to 10 people in the same workgroup. Youcan share desktops, applications, and files in a common work space … And allow you to jointly edit those files. Another new feature is the way Vista will integrate with the new Windows Office 2007, which in itself is brand new and has many new features a small to mid-sized business would appreciate.As mentioned, there will be two business versions, Vista Business, $199 for the up-grade and $299 for the full version. You get all the new features except the new“Media Center”.

The second is Vista Enterprise which will not be available to us mere mortals and only available to larger organizations. Overall, if you are a small business and have security issues Vista would be a goodchoice but pricey. You will have the cost of the OS plus the cost of the hardware up-grades and the cost of the learning curve. If you are starting out brand new, you maywant to look into Vista. For the rest of us, if everything is running fine on XP then it wont hurt you to wait awhile..

Chris Kaminski is head technician for Computer Guys Live Inc., an online computer repair company based in Asheville, NC. Visit The Computer Guys Live for your secure, online computer repair and tech support.

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