This publication does an excellent job of explaining the myriad features of Vista in a clear, concise manner. Particularly noteworthy are the many tips that are highlighted throughout the text - they are extremely useful, and may not be available elsewhere.

While the basic facts are probably available on the Microsoft website, it would take me a lifetime to find them. Thanks Microsoft Press.

Excellent reference book & fun to use. Got a question? Want to learn something new? Review? It's all here. I'm not a "geek" and yet I enjoy using this book. You will too.

Definitely the best comprehensive guide book on the planet.

This book guides step by step from Setup & Start up to Advanced System Management. You really cannot go wrong with this book.

The diagrams & figures are perfectly designed and explained.

To added all it includes a CD which you find downloadable gadgets and tools for the customizing your desktop. Links to troubleshooting tools, security updates, and product demos. Fully searchable e-Book and other e-Books.

For the big volume book like this, accompanied E-book CD is a very good convenience to have it all the time with your notebook or else.

These guys were my first and best resource for Windows XP and they haven't failed me with Vista.

I have 15 pounds of Vista documentation on my book shelf, and one e-book on my hard drive. Guess which one?

No one source can hold all information about Vista. I search the electronic version of this book first for my Vista questions and if the perfect solution is not there, I have still learned enough to get to quickly get to the heart of the topic without doing countless fruitless web searches.
Windows Vista Inside Out, Deluxe Edition

First, for most of you, this is a great book. Ed Bott is among the best writers about Windows out there, and the book has great indices and layout. It answers 95-99% of my questions well.

I haven't really read a lot of it, but referred to it here and there. I've generally found the answer to what I need (and I do some work in software testing). I haven't been able to find a good resolution to a problem plaguing my home system about waking up USB devices in sleep mode. (Apparently this is a known issue and well documented on the MS site). This book is good at explaining how things are supposed to work, not as good at explaining why they don't always function the way they're supposed to.

One other hilarious thing. The appendix contains about 30-40 pages that list bugs which were fixed. Talk about padding!

This is a comprehensive book. I do not believe there is better place to go if you really want to know and understand what's included in the Vista version of the Windows Operating Systems.

[[ASIN:0735625247 Windows Vista Inside Out, Deluxe Edition

I feel I wasted $35 on this. Print is too light in color. Light gray ink on white background doesn't cut it. I spoke to author Ed Bott who is a noted Windows expert that I trust to be an honest man. He said there were complaints about the printing clarity in the first edition. I went to Amazon's readers review and found several who said the same thing. Ed said he spoke to Microsoft Press, the publisher, prior to printing and voiced the clarity complaints. Apparently Microsoft said "To hell with them" and the result cost me $35. The CDROM is nice but it's no help because I can't put the CD pages beside the computer and read while I try to solve a problem on the screen. Microsoft has no large print editions so we're all stuck. Good bye Microsoft, hello Apple.