Ars Technica continues their look at the Vista, in this review focusing on security.  They cover the usual suspects, like UAC and Protected Mode for IE, but also look into some features you might not be aware of.  For instance, when a non-administrator is logged in and a program tries to write to Program Files or the registry, it actually writes to that users profile, while convincing the program that it has placed the file where the program wanted it.  This makes it much easier to use the PC as a non-administrator.  There’s a lot more to their article than that, so read on.
“In “Windows Vista: more than just a pretty face,” we began our extensive assessment of Windows Vista with a focus on the changes to the graphical framework of Windows. We also talked about improvements to the general Windows API, the media foundation, and improvements in sound. In what follows, we look at three remaining areas of major improvement for Vista: security, networking, and storage. At the end, we present the first round of our criticisms of the new OS. In the coming weeks, we will unveil our performance-oriented examination of the OS. Without further ado…”

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