Windows Vista™ Plain & Simple

A Few Assumptions

We had to make a few educated guesses about you, our audience, when we started writing this book. Perhaps your computer is solely for personal use—e-mail, surfing the Internet, playing games, and so on. Perhaps your work allows you to telecommute. Or maybe you run a small home-based business. Taking all these possibilities into account, we assumed that either you’d be using a stand-alone home computer or you’d have two or more computers connected so that you could share files, a printer, and so on. We also assumed that you have an Internet connection.

Another assumption we made is that—initially, anyway—you’d use Windows Vista just the way it came, and that your computer is capable of using all of Windows Vista’s features, meaning ...