A high definition audio device may no longer work after you resume Windows Vista from sleep or from hibernation and then restart the computer.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929685 In Windows Vista, you cannot access any resources on a remote VPN server after you switch a network connection from one network adapter to another network adapter and then dial a VPN connection.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/930163

Thanks for your patience as I looked into this. I heard back from the folks at the MSRC, and they let me know that Microsoft is investigating public reports of a possible vulnerability in Windows Vista?s speech recognition feature. Microsoft?s initial investigation reveals that this vulnerability could allow an attacker to use the speech recognition feature in Windows Vista to verbally execute commands on a user?s computer. The attackers? commands are limited to the rights of the logged on user. User Account Control prohibits the attacker from executing any administrative level commands. Read on at ZdNet

DRM restricts the kind of media content you can use on your Vista machine. This is meant to make life harder for pirates but in practice, as Sony learnt, it can make life harder for honest users too.
Alex Ionescu said on his blog that he had written code which could be used to bypass Vista's DRM. Ionescu has not published the code but promises in a later post to publish "some safe, generic, proof of concept code that targets what I believe is a flaw in the Code Integrity/Driver Signing model.". Read more at TheRegister

As we reported here there is a way how to install Vista Update Version without upgrading a WinXP.
An internal paper from Microsoft now confirms a clean installation.
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With a support note quietly posted to its Web site, Microsoft confirmed what enthusiasts have long feared: Users who purchase Upgrade versions of Windows Vista will not be able to perform clean installs of the operating system. Instead, they will need to first install their previous OS and then upgrade in-place to Vista. Read on at WinItPro Update: Warp2Search User Cuke2u reports that there is a workaround to install an Update Version of Vista clean and smooth:

This is the first part of a series on what's new in the Windows Vista kernel. In this issue, I'll look at changes in the areas of processes and threads, and in I/O. Future installments will cover memory management, startup and shutdown, reliability and recovery, and security. The scope of this article comprises changes to the Windows Vista? kernel only, specifically Ntoskrnl.exe and its closely associated components. Please remember that there are many other significant changes in Windows Vista that fall outside the kernel proper and therefore won't be covered. Read on at WinOsCentral

Microsoft recently unveiled a new web site called "Windows Vista Test Drive" designed to allow business users, consumers, and the merely curious to find out what running Microsoft's latest operating system might be like without actually having to install it.
The web site requires Windows 2000 or XP, Internet Explorer 6 or 7, and Microsoft's Virtual Machine Remote Control (VMRC) Advanced ActiveX control, which is installed when the user first visits the page?IE 7 dutifully reminds the user of all the inherent dangers of installing ActiveX controls first, but eventually allows the installation. For fun, I tried out the site under Windows Vista itself, and it worked fine. Read on at ArsTechnica

Microsoft has defended the digital rights management systems integrated into its new Vista operating system.
It follows reports that Vista would "downgrade" the quality of all video and audio, if they were not output via approved connections on the PC.
Microsoft said only the quality of "premium content" would be lowered, and only if requested by copyright holders. Read on at BBC News

After lots of wavering, Microsoft has finally made the due date for Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) official: The update will ship in the latter half of 2007. (Microsoft didn't issue a press release with that pronouncement. Instead, it notified its Technology Adoption Partner testers of it via an e-mail regarding the imminent start of the Vista SP1 testing program.) Source: ActiveWin

Chris Pirillo has written down the first nTop 10 Tweaks, Tips and Tricks for the upcoming Microsoft Vista. Chris Pirillo Thanks again to WinOsCentral FYI.

On Tuesday, Mary Jo broke the news about the Windows Vista Family Discount. Today, Microsoft made the formal announcement, and Joe Wilcox immediately lambasted it as a bad idea (no surprise there). The problem is that Joe based his analysis on incomplete information. Fortunately for you, dear readers, I have all the facts. WindowsNow via
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