Won’t someone think of the children?
Microsoft did. Windows Vista comes with powerful and easy-to-use features that anyone can wield to prevent kids and other unauthorized users from accessing all kinds of things. Anybody with an administrator account can prevent users with standard accounts from downloading files, accessing certain games and applications, using the computer at certain times of day, and so on.
It seems as though we have been writing about Windows Vista in the future tense forever. Nobody will deny that Microsoft has taken an unusually long time to build its latest OS and that some features had to be cut along the way. Whatever you make of the new OS as a whole, it’s a very important step for gamers, ideologically. This is the operating system where Microsoft has put “Games” right there at the top level of the Start menu.
Rich Wickham, the director of Games for Windows business, has a lot to say about gaming on Windows Vista. Here’s something he sent around that I thought you might appreciate:
Some of you may have heard about some incompatibilities with games running on Windows Vista. I’d like to clear up some misconceptions.
