One of the many headaches associated with Windows XP is network configuration. Despite seemingly friendly dialog boxes, networking in Windows XP just doesn’t plug-and-play, especially if you’re faced with interfacing between multiple wired or wireless networks on a daily basis. Windows Vista is already demonstrating potential for solving many of the networking woes, with better presentation of information and auto-detection features designed to remove some of the guesswork. To get a better feel for what we can expect from the Windows Vista networking experience, Chris recently chatted with a PM from the networking team about what’s currently in the Vista beta, what improvements are under the hood and what we might expect to see happen with networking before Vista ships at the end of 2006 and beginning of 2007.