Windows Vista® Inside Out Deluxe Edition

Acknowledgments

This book has been at least four years in the making—a period that encompasses two years of research, another year of hammering on beta versions, and yet another year learning what was in the final released version of Windows Vista and its first service pack.

If we tried to list all the people who have helped us in one way or another on this project, we’d have to add another 50 pages. So we apologize in advance to those we don’t thank by name. That long list includes literally dozens of developers, product managers, and technical professionals at Microsoft who tried their best to explain the sometimes inscrutable workings of Windows Vista to us. It also includes our fellow beta testers, bloggers, Microsoft MVPs, and Windows enthusiasts ...