ResNet and Windows Vista
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Windows Vista, the replacement for Windows XP, will soon be available from Microsoft.
If you are considering upgrading your existing computer on ResNet to Vista - please don't yet. Although we've already looked at beta copies, we need to do more work to make sure Vista works OK on ResNet. In particular, we don't yet have a version of our McAfee VirusScan software that runs on Vista (and without McAfee we won't let computers on ResNet, so if you upgrade now you won't be able to connect).
From around February, new computers will be supplied with Vista. By that time we hope to have a version of McAfee available. There may be other software in use within the University that is still being tested even then.