Vista Group Policy (GPO) and Security
I found this link out there to help people understand the security benefits of Vista over XP.
A lot of people think Vista and XP are the same.. but the major change has been in Security. Vista has almost 3,000 group policies that can be configured to secure your system. I'm not aware of what XP has at this point though.
Notice in the link, the security is available really only on the Business class OS, not on the Home version.
Vista is geared to securing Business/Corporate PCs.. that's the major benefit we currently are seeing with Vista over previous Windows versions.
Read up on it and if you're in a company, you'll see the benefits and the direction that Microsoft is heading to. Note, this mainly requires some form of centrally controled management, ie Active Directory.
I found this link out there to help people understand the security benefits of Vista over XP.
A lot of people think Vista and XP are the same.. but the major change has been in Security. Vista has almost 3,000 group policies that can be configured to secure your system. I'm not aware of what XP has at this point though.
Notice in the link, the security is available really only on the Business class OS, not on the Home version.
Vista is geared to securing Business/Corporate PCs.. that's the major benefit we currently are seeing with Vista over previous Windows versions.
Read up on it and if you're in a company, you'll see the benefits and the direction that Microsoft is heading to. Note, this mainly requires some form of centrally controled management, ie Active Directory.