I tried Vista the other day on a Dell from a friend - that thing is so obsolete... I'm a recent switcher (got a C2D MB the day it was announced), and I did not find anything new in Vista. My old XP install on a Dell, and the one running in Parallels has the Vista theme, also teatime from Spybot takes care of the security of system files and everything else, together with a good free firewall program like zone alarm I did not even run a virus scan on it, and never had an issue... At the same time my XP in parallels with around 750 mb allocation is 10 times faster and snappier at opening and closing programs like word, or explorer windows. Oh, and what a heck, they still did not solve the whole visualization of windows where you are seeing your window with the desktop in it while the window is loading... Also, despite the absence of the windows tab, the regular tabbing with preview windows was available even in XP... so, my question - is Vista just a theme pack with a couple additional programs attached to it (common, defender is an additional virus check, etc... that is not an improvement to the operating system, is just another program bundled along...)? Such a waste of 6.5 billion dollars in development (according to the reports)... and at the same time so many children have no food in Africa... what a waste... Microsoft is really going down the drain, using jet propulsion set at full speed...
There you go, my rant of the day...
