Since that left me a little frustrated I went to my second choice and I download a McAfee trial of their Internet Security suite. It didn’t even start the installer. Anyway, I was a bit bothered that neither product would have chosen and I know SOME companies that I do work for are using , installed. But all right, I open the Security Center again and sure enough there is the button: FIND A PROGRAM, which opens the following web-page:

Upon inspection I am thinking WOW! only these companies are supported (ok for now). While I am sure that all of these companies have a good size market share, I am surprised that Symantec and McAfee are not ready or do not have a version available yet since at least all these other companies seem to be ready. But what will Windows Vista do to all the corporate infrastructures in place already? I mean for example Bitlocker, Windows’ new drive encryption REQUIRES 2 Partitions, an active one to boot from (with at least 1.5GB in size) and the working partition. So you loose 1.5GB already, just to use drive encryption, where Truecrypt and Pointsec make you loose nothing. Also how is
Bitlocker going to work in recovery? Especially in an enterprise.

The fact that the firewall is on by default is great and that you have now a few profiles is great too but what if you need MORE profiles then DOMAIN, HOME and PUBLIC? What if different conditions are required etc.? So the firewall is not quite ready for the Enterprise either. And then you have the nice user intervention with UAC (User Account Control) as you can see with the following screenshots:

For a corporation this is a BIG no. I can just imagine the amount of calls to the help-desk that will come!

Since Windows Vista is so radically different then Windows XP and 2000, is it really ready and made for the enterprise? Why would any major corporation shift their focus to this new toy with so many flashy GUI advancements and so many Microsoft owned and controlled security settings (the anti-phishing feature in IE 7 for example), especially since Windows XP probably just got adopted or fully rolled out in some big companies. Why change a system that has now been proven and probably locked down by the corporate IT department so tight that most things work just fine and it will run on the corporate laptops still for quite a while?

And no, this is not a definitive guide or anything like it. This post should just raise some points and discussions before everyone heralds all the new features as the best thing since sliced bread.
//Flosse

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