I recently got into a bit of a dispute with a coworker about Windows Vista. His contention is that Vista is horrible because of incompatibility issues with older equipment. Valid point, but that has more to do with companies not wanting to write driver for older equipment to force us to upgrade. My contention is that Vista is the most secure operating system Microsoft has ever made. One of main security features that I happen to love is the parental controls. I can set what program my kids can use, what websites they can go to, and what times and even how long they can stay logged in. Now instead of me being consternated, with security issues my kids are (much better for me). Seriously they do not mind and have now decided to interact with me more. “Daaaad, I need to get to this website for a school project.” Well I go look and sure enough my world wide kid is actually doing homework. Astounded at the level of productivity going on I simply put my user name and password in the pop up screen that you child can use to get permission and viola off to the web site for research. More information can be found in the following link http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/features/parental-controls.aspx
The World Wide Parent
