I'm glad my employer is a MS Gold Partner, which means I have access to every MS title currently available (legally!).(Sorry, couldn't resist)
I haven't installed Vista yet, though. I'm seriously considering skipping it.
--Erwin
Now I have it installed, I'm in two minds about it. I detest the disk activity
of Vista. In its default state, Vista is incredibly disk intensive. I can hear it
hammering away at the disk continually. The main culprits are:
(1) Superfetch.
(2) Indexing.
(3) Volume Shadow Service.
(4) Windows Defender.
I disabled (1) and restricted (2) to the startup menu. As a consequence,
the disk chatter has decreased considerably. Borderline tolerable now.
Also Vista is full of dozens of little interface annoyances that make for a
much less productive environment to get stuff done in. They may sound
trivial - e.g., the cut and paste keys don't work at the command prompt;
there is no minimize keyboard shortcut; etc etc - but the sum total of all
this is a nasty slowing down of a user's workflow. And some of the design
choices are simply retarded. E.g., this:
That's the resource monitor. You have all these nice little sections, CPU,
Disk, Network, etc. But you can't show more than a few entries of any
one section, even if there's a gigantic empty space at the bottom of the
blasted window. The Memory section above is expanded as far as it will
go. Argggh!
All that said, there are some really nice thing about Vista that Leopard
lacks. It's just that I'm too tired after my long rant to mention them