In Vista, connecting to a network, from the internet down to the humblest direct-connection two computer LAN has been made as simple as possible. The 'Network' button can be found on your start bar, or you can access the 'Network and Sharing Center' directly through your control panel, though it's only one click away from the Network tab opened up from the start bar. When I first logged on to Vista, I went looking for this setting straight away, so that I could get back online. However, before I'd even found it, I accidentally clicked on Internet Explorer, and found that the network had been found, connected to and that I was online. Brilliantly useful, and still very secure as 'Network discovery' was (unintuitively, given that a network was automatically 'discovered') turned off by default for the network I connected to.
See also:
Workgroups
Network and Sharing Center
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