Ana Judeh, owner of Modern Mia Spa & Salon in Redmond, sees a lot of good stuff in Windows Vista. She uses the Microsoft operating system’s Remote Desktop Connection feature to access files from home. She and her staff like to post virtual notes in the Windows Vista sidebar. She is reassured by the automatic file backups, and she finds Vista’s interface easy to navigate. It even works with her older laser printer.
After attracting a fair amount of criticism for Vista, Microsoft has come back swinging – defending the operating system by claiming it is the most popular and fastest selling version of Windows the firm has ever released.
Apparently 20 months wasn’t quite long enough to wait to introduce an online “Vista Compatibility Center.” The Web site, which was due to launch on Tuesday morning, still hasn’t launched as of 2 p.m. PDT Wednesday. The idea was to offer a Web site where consumers and small businesses could easily check whether their hardware and software are Vista-ready. Since yesterday afternoon, however, the site has greeted visitors with the message “The Windows Vista Compatibility Center will be launching soon, please check back!”
Microsoft issued four bulletins that address nine vulnerabilities for July’s Patch Tuesday, none of them critical. This is the first time since last year that none of the patches were rated critical. With only four vulnerabilities rated “important,” IT administrators have some breathing room to get caught up and reassess their security, researchers said.

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