Networking with Microsoft® Windows Vista™: Your Guide to Easy and Secure Windows Vista Networking

Introduction

In This Introduction

• How This Book Is Organized
• Conventions Used in This Book

Only connect!—E. M. Forster

If you have just a single computer in your home or small office, and if you’re the only person who uses that computer, your setup is inherently efficient. You can use the machine whenever you like, and everything you need—your applications, your printer, your CD/DVD drive, your Internet connection, and so on—are readily available.

Things become noticeably less efficient if you have to share the computer with other people. For instance, you might have to wait for someone else to finish a task before you can get your own work done, you might need to have separate applications for each person’s requirements, and you might need ...