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My gut is telling me that most organisations will be slow to adopt Vista due to the amount of change and the costs of purchasing new hardware.\u00a0 But I do see it prematurely making it&#8217;s way into networks for a few reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>OEM Licensing: Organisations with OEM desktop licensing will start seeing Vista as an OS option from January onwards.\u00a0 I doubt it will take long for MS to withdraw Windows XP as an option.\u00a0 <\/li>\n<li>Some applications will have an OS dependency.\u00a0 Some cutting edge business applications may take advantage of new features available to programmers.<\/li>\n<li>Windows Vista is chock full of new security features.\u00a0 This may make it a candidate for complete or targeted deployment by security planners.\u00a0 One feature likely to draw attention is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/windowsvista\/security\/bittech.mspx\">BitLocker<\/a>, a login integrated, complete disk encryption solution that makes us of TPM architecture for secure key storage.\u00a0 BitLocker is a feature of Windows Vista Enterprise which is only available to Software Assurance customers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>January isn&#8217;t far away so proactive administrators and consultants should be making plans now.\u00a0 Part of this is understanding the security implications associated with Windows Vista.\u00a0 You can download a beta release of the Windows Vista Security Guide from Microsoft&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/connect.microsoft.com\/\">Connect<\/a> web site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows Vista is coming.\u00a0 You can live in denial all you want but change is on the way.\u00a0 Vista features lots of changes: h\/w requirements, user interface, deployment,\u00a0but most of all, the biggest changes seem to be in the security features and functionality. 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