Gonna run Vista on Boot Camp or Parallels or...O'Reilly has Two New Books for You

If you are running Windows XP or any other version of Windows on your Mac, you may want to consider upgrading to Vista. While it's not very close to Mac OS X in ease of use, we think it's several large steps closer than XP, particularly in networking. Here's a couple of books from O'Reilly to help with the transition:

David Pogue's Windows Vista: The Missing Manual (O'Reilly, $34.99) will be right there when Vista hits the streets--an up-to-the-nanosecond single book that offers complete, comprehensive coverage of all five Vista versions.

Then, after all the hype and attention paid to the Vista revolution--with its 50 million lines of code soon to be running on 400 million computers--Preston Gralla's Windows Vista in a Nutshell (O'Reilly, $34.99), stands ready to answer the questions of power users, enthusiasts, small business owners, and IT professionals.

Even with Vista, you will definitely need a manual if only to find out how to turn off many of the maddening security blocks to your use of the operating system. [Bill Fox]