The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
Vista is supposed to be a safer and more
secure operating system than than XP. However, improvements in the
security part - that is the anti-malware component - are contentious.
Yes, the UAC (user account control) feature puts up additional layers
of query boxes each time a user tries to do something that might be
construed as a security risk.
I'm not
alone in believing that many users will simply tick the UAC query boxes
and others will eventually come to regard this feature as an annoyance
and simply turn it off. Currently, all good anti-virus and Internet
security packages present users with query boxes and recommendations of
how they should respond whenever an action needs to be performed that
could lead to a potential security breach. Inevitably, users in most
cases simply tick the box to allow the action to be performed.
Probably
the most impressive aspect of the security features is the ease of
which parents can control use of the computer by their children. They
can set the times of day that their children can use the PC, limit the
websites they visit and the games they play. It's all very user
friendly and straight forward. Is this a must a have right now? For
some parents with young children, perhaps.
Microsoft tells us
that Vista will take graphics and gaming to a new level and will make
networking a lot easier. Not being a hard core gamer, I can't really
judge that aspect. However, I really don't have a problem with getting
on to Wi-Fi networks with Windows XP and have never suffered a security
breach through my firewall knock on wood. Do I really need to tell the
system whether the network is home, office or a public place? As far as
I'm concerned, whenever I'm on a Wi-Fi network, it's the equivalent of
being in a public place.
At the Vista launch, Microsoft
demonstrated how pretty Vista can look with a moving picture as a
background for the screen. A flowing waterfall certainly looks more
impressive than a static screen shot and I certainly look forward to
having it on my next PC. But that's the story of Vista. It's the
operating system for your next PC.
David Bass
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