I took my 13-year-old daughter with me to Staples last Saturday to pick up a few office supplies. While we were there, I looked at the computers on display: I wanted to check to see if Windows Vista Home Premium can connect to a VPN. Yes, it can, as it turns out. I have Vista running at my office for compatibility testing, but only two editions: Ultimate and Business. Vista Ultimate runs on an old Compaq Presari I took my 13-year-old daughter with me to Staples last Saturday to pick up a few office supplies. While we were there, I looked at the computers on display: I wanted to check to see if Windows Vista Home Premium can connect to a VPN. Yes, it can, as it turns out.I have Vista running at my office for compatibility testing, but only two editions: Ultimate and Business. Vista Ultimate runs on an old Compaq Presario that I upgraded last year to have enough RAM; Vista Business runs in a Virtual PC. Neither configuration supports the Windows Aero interface: neither the old NVIDIA GeForce2 video card on the Presario nor the emulated S3 Trio in Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 is good enough. For more information about when Windows Vista enables Aero, see this Microsoft white paper.My daughter had already played with Vista Ultimate at the office. Literally. “What’s this Purple Place game? Yuck!” This visit to Staples was the first time she’d seen Aero, however, so I showed her the cool stuff: I pressed WIN-TAB and showed her the Flip 3D mode window chooser, and I dragged an application Window around on the desktop and pointed out how the background showed up through the “glass” window border. I was waiting for the “Wow!” I didn’t quite get it.“Is that it?”“Yes, that’s it.” “Big whoop.” Software Development