Special Report: Windows Vista is looking like the most secure OS to come out of Microsoft yet. What follows, quite naturally, are the questions of whether that’s good enough for the enterprise, and Has Microsoft kept it’s Vista security promise? Not everyone thinks so. Some go so far as to insist that Vista’s security model is merely “a big joke.” Looking ahead to Longhorn, though, “Microsoft seems to finally have made a real effort,” Oliver Rist writes in A bullish outlook for Longhorn security. Of course, it’s still too early to tell if Microsoft will deliver on its claims. Columnist’s corner: Even melodrama has its lessons, such as the ones our Off the Record author learned: make sure there are witnesses when helping a co-worker do his job, and keep your mouth shut at big meetings. “Since he seemed like a decent guy, Jesse and I were perfectly happy sharing our expertise.” That’s how it began. It ends with sour grapes. Shortcuts to career suicide. Careers: One reader writes in that after 24 years with the company he was terminated last week sans so much as an explanation. “If you were fired for cause, shame on your managers for not giving you the opportunity to improve your performance. And if you were fired because of some intangible factor, shame on your managers again,” Lewis writes in Advice Line. Of course, not everyone who gets fired deserves to blame management, even though Lewis contends that in this particular situation “it will probably turn out to be a blessing.” This, by the by, is the first tech article I’ve seen in a while to quote The Who; and twice, at that. Security