Others say...

"Bargain"
A very comprehensive treatment which lives up to its title of the only vista book you need.A real bargain at the price.

"It's all there!"
Very detailed, as you would expect from a Que book, but quite well organized. Except for unique requirements, the book blurb is true - "the only book on Vista you will ever need".

"excellent book for advance users"
This is the book which gives the Window users tons of information. Robert Cowart must have spent a lot of time for exploring and studying the Window Vista to write this book. He supplies most of the detail I have expected to look for. Moreover, I can learn a lot of new useful functions of Vista which I haven't thought of.
This is an excellent book for Vista users.

"Time to Start Getting Ready"
I see in the paper today that the first 'major security flaw' was discovered in Vista. It sounds like it must be a real operating system after all.

Since Microsoft stopped issuing manuals with their software you almost have to have one of these huge books if you're going to effectively use them. The on-line support built into Vista is produced by Microsoft. It takes books like this one to point out work arounds, flaws, and generally give a third party outside the company opinion.

The biggest changes, as far as I can see, in Vista is the greatly increased attention paid to security, significantely changed Control Panel and the changed overall view and feel. Of course there is also support for a lot more features like FireWire, RAIDs, and many more, but these are of more limited interest because fewer people will have RAID or whatever hardware.

All of these features and more are discussed in this huge book. There's also an 80 minute video supplied on a CD that shows Vista in action doing a variety of things.

As of yet, I've looked over this book, reading the interesting sections, making some notes of where to go study harder. But I won't get a copy of Vista for a while so really can't tell you if I've found anything wrong or not. It reads well, the authors have a history of writing good books, and I like their writing style.