Windows Vista

Windows Vista (once codenamed Longhorn) replaces Windows XP and will be Microsoft's most powerful client operating system to date. Security and file management has been greatly improved and hundreds of features, including multimedia creation tools, have been added.

The Beyond the Manual series addresses the needs of very experienced readers. Although it is not assumed that they are familiar with the book's topic, it is assumed that they are very familiar with similar technologies. The presentation of information is extremely dense and avoids introductory or basic text. The series delivers as much information in as little space as possible.

Tony Campbell is a veteran Microsoft consultant (MCP) specializing in the architecture and design of secure Microsoft-centric business solutions. He also has vast experience in many other industry niches such as networking, collaboration, security, business logic, and disaster recovery and resilience. Tony has been involved with all sizes of business, from the very small to the very large, and has successfully delivered secure, reliable, robust solutions to more than 150,000 clients during his 18 years in the business. Tony started his career back in the 1980s as a green screen mainframe programmer for the British Meteorological Office, finally arriving after a long journey to his current role as a self-employed IT consultant for more than a dozen full-time customers. Tony is a regular contributor to a number of IT journals distributed across the globe, and has been involved in the production of software manuals, user guides, white papers, hardware manuals, and training courses. His love of writing has led to publication of some fiction by a number of small presses as well as by a few more obscure magazines.