Windows Vista管理员袖珍顾问

《Windows Vista管理员袖珍顾问》 Microsoft Press Windows Vista Administrators Pocket Consultant Dec 2006

Writing Windows Vista Administrator's Pocket Consultant was a lot of funand a lot of work. As I set out to write this book, my first goal was to determine what had changed between Windows XP and Windows Vista and what new administration options were available. With any new operating system, and especially with Windows Vista, this meant a great deal of research to determine exactly how things work and a lot of digging into the operating system internals. Thankfully, I'd already written a book introducing Windows Vista and its new features, so I had a point of reference for my research, but not necessarily a complete one.

When you start working with Windows Vista, you'll see at once that this operating system is different from earlier releases of Windows. On the desktop, you'll see the fancy interfaces featuring Aeroglass and the cool new bells and whistles like the sidebar gadgets. In the Control Panel, you'll see the increased focus on centralized management and configuration. What won't be readily apparent, however, is just how different Windows Vista is from its predecessorsand that's because many of the most significant changes to the operating system are under the surface. These changes affect the underlying architecture and not just the interfacesand these changes were some of the hardest for me to research and write about.