Now that Windows Vista is on a glide path to a final release (with a few million individuals and businesses already having access to it), I’m building a list of sources for great advice and information about using Windows Vista.
I’ve got a few sites bookmarked already, but I’m interested in your input. Which sites do you trust? Which ones have the best news, the best tips, the best message boards, the best writing?
Post links in the comments.
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Ed Bott (@ wordpress.com) 
I like Geekgirl’s stuff on Vista and other versions of Windows:
http://www.geekgirls.com/menu_winguides.htm
It’s not high-volume (I believe it’s a one-woman site) but it’s some of the best tech writing on the net, and spot on.
[Edited to make link clickable – Ed]
McClaws has a decent site up.
http://www.windows-now.com/blogs/
The official MS vista blog has also been extremely insightful with good links:
http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/
I’ve spent the past year developing this site. It will feature how-to guides on Windows Vista and other Microsoft products.
You can get a sneak peak at what’s to come at the link below.
http://www.maximumpcguides.com/
I just started ITsVISTA on Nov 30th, with the release of Vista enterprise. It will contain everything Vista, with an emphasis on the IT professional.
http://itsvista.com
Ed,
I’ve found http://www.istartedsomething.com/ to be very good. I’m almost sure I got the link from you so that probably doesn’t help much. Your arch-nemisis over at WinSuperSite.com has written some very good articles. I’d like to hear the two of you duke it out some time on Windows Weekly.
Like some of the other folks here, I’m starting an IT/Sysadmin-focused blog, but I’ll refrain from pimping it because it’s not ready.
One more thing, and maybe this is your intention, but you probably get quite a bit of traffic, so I think it’d be really nice to share the wealth a bit by putting at least a short blogroll over there on the right.
That is indeed my intention (and then some). I’ve listed a blogroll here in the past, but it was kind of a pain to keep up. Once this crunch passes, I’ll be rebuilding it and introducing a new project.
Here are some good ones:
Tim Sneath’s Blog
Shell Revealed
iStartedSomething (great Vista screencasts)
I got the link for Tweak Vista from Sandi Hardmeier. The site is defined as still in beta status but has good information posted A nice feature of the site is the inclusion of screen shots.
http://www.tweakvista.eu/
I mentioned this before, but here’s my ongoing XP User’s Guide to Vista, which is a subset of my regular blog.
http://www.thegline.com/windows/windows_vista/xp_users_guide_to/
I haven’t wrote much for Vista yet but here are the indepth requirements:
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/VistaRequirements.html
TheThirdEye.org is a great resource with loads of information. Check it out… its only going to improve
http://www.vista4beginners.com – a website that offers simple and easy to understand tutorials about Windows Vista, starting with the most simple things like playing music on your Vista PC.