...On the downside is an upside. You get bombarded with warnings and cautionary pop-ups to an annoying degree as the collection of Vista security tools do their stuff to deflect viruses, warn of phishing Web sites, deflect spyware and block firewall breaches.
Vista, for now, appears far safer than Windows XP.
Another upside/downside is the serious load--probably overload--of information that comes with all those jumping icons, flashing warnings and see-through windows to remind you of work undone. Yet another comes in the parental controls that one can use to monitor and restrict offspring lured by MySpace, YouTube, bloggers, instant messages, chat boxes, mash-ups and other treats/terrors.
You can log each e-mail and text message a youngster receives (attachments included). You can block specific sites or set up a list of only the sites you want them to visit. Maybe best of all, access to the PC during the current day can be shut off at any designated time.
Of course one spouse can turn this Big Brother scrutiny on the other spouse, and bosses can eavesdrop as never before, but hey, that's the vista that awaits us all.
(LATimes)
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