Best of the blogs: Vista is now widely available, true, but that doesn’t mean that Bob Garza will walk around recommending it to clients. “Six different flavors of the new OS? Ugh, I see support headaches galore,” he writes in The pain of Vista begins. “I do find it curious that Vista comes with Windows Defender to protect it against spyware and other potentially malicious software, but it doesn’t come with integrated anti-virus. Which, I’m sure, will be leading to more pain.” Full coverage: Vista: the next generation. Columnist’s corner: When the CIO lacks experience with Citrix ICA, server virtualization and, umm, SANs, most IT pros would reckon the best way to move through a multi-beast of an upgrade would be one step at a time. But not the CIO in this week’s Off the Record who decides to slay the monster’s eight heads simultaneously — and in one week. The rollout started Friday evening, and in no time at all “the level of chaos was so intense nobody knew what to test first.” I’d love to report an ending replete with vindication, but…The news beat: Sony settles with the FTC over its rootkit debacle by agreeing to disclose limitations on consumers’ use of its music CDs and reimburse customers for damaged PCs, among other points of consent. Seagate details a wireless storage device, which holds up to 20GB, and enables users to share digital files among mobile phones, PCs. And Adobe president and CEO Shantanu Narayen discusses his company’s multiplatform runtime environment, code-named Apollo and slated for beta testing later this year, in this interview. Technology Industry