Okay, before you go and think poorly of me, realize that I have to use Windows.

Now, on to why I'm writing.

I just installed Vista RTM over the weekend on my laptop.  I went whole-hog, and put Office 2007 RTM on there, too.  I've been using both off and on for a while (see my Outlook 2007 woes for an example) and unless I hit a show-stopper, I think I've migrated for good.

First impressions?  Vista's just as finicky as XP, and it feels like they've changed file locations just to change file locations.  Does the fact that there's a Users folder make sense?  Sure, but why wasn't that the option in Windows 2000, or XP?  It just seems arbitrary now, especially once you add the partitioned profiles (Local, Local Low and Roaming) and think about having to deal with the abstraction layer ("Do Firefox bookmarks go in Local Low or Roaming?") on a regular basis.  Hopefully developers will update their Windows applications to deal with the changes.

It seems more stable, but faster is up for questioning right now.  As a laptop user, it sleeps faster, and it wakes from sleep faster too.  Not that it was hard to do better than 2000/XP, but still.  We'll see how well that stands up six months from now, once the Windows Cruft has set in.

<strikethrough>Aqua</strikethrough> Aero seems to be fairly useless eye-candy.  Flip3D is nice, but again, useless.  I've yet to see anything that makes me think "WOW!  I'm glad I can run Aero!" and more than one application where Vista still has to disable Aero to work.  In all honesty, what gives?

::sigh::  In all, a fairly useless upgrade, aside from riding the security train.  UAC is still annoying, but necessary.  Users still do stupid things, and Windows needs to provide at least a better level of protection.  It can be turned off, too, so that's good as well.

Office 2007?  Now, that's a good upgrade...