
As promised, Microsoft delivered its first feature-complete Windows Vista Community Technical Preview (CTP) this week, build 5308. The February 2006 CTP includes a number of Vista features aimed specifically at businesses. This is the first CTP to focus largely on business users, Microsoft said.
"Windows Vista is as much, if not more, a business release," said Brad Goldberg, general manager of Windows Client product management, during a conference call with journalists and enthusiast Web site operators. According to Goldberg, Vista will make networks more secure and simplify how businesses complete complicated tasks, such as logging onto Virtual Private Networks (VPNs). Microsoft is also lowering permission levels so that some tasks, such as setting up printers, can be accomplished by non-administrators.
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