All while I'm seriously contemplating dumping Vista Ultimate and going XP-pro 64.

I ran into the stupidest Vista blemish yet t'other day: In XP, I can open Win Explorer and drag a file or a drive to the start menu shortcut area and then from there the shortcut offers both the flyout menu and double click to open the location in Win Explorer. If I do this in Vista, double click the shortcut... it opens in Win Explorer but with some special path in the User's start menu folder - so I can't got to the real parent folder!!! That is annoying me so much I can hardly stand it.

No "up" arrow key? It was so stupid to remove that I can't find the words.

UAC continues to suck the sweaty nads of a long distance runner.

STILL no "new folder" button in the Win Explorer tool bar. This simple button is about a decade and a half late to the party.

After two full months with Vista I'm liking less and less.

My next full upgrade has a 50/50 chance of being a Mac.

Sorry, time to upgrade and relearn everything.

And the alternative was to leave the Windows kernel alone, with its inherent security deficiencies? M$ did what it had to do in Windows 6 (Vista), which was address long-standing security problems by rewriting the network stack and the driver model entirely, separating it from the kernel. This can only be a good thing going forward.

I can't really shed a tear for companies like the one I work for, where they have a critical document management software running NT4 SP4 on an 11-year old Dell PowerEdge system, and they refuse to upgrade the software to a current revision, knowing full well that the ISV doesn't support their 11-year old software anymore and that our enterprise backup solution doesn't support NT4. Idiocy. Scenarios like that are hardly M$'s fault.

No "up" arrow key? It was so stupid to remove that I can't find the words.


Breadcrumbs, dude, breadcrumbs; far and away better than the Up button since you can drill down from any point along the breadcrumb trail. This is one of my favorite things about the new Explorer.

I don't want to turn off a security feature - what else gets turned of besides the annoying stuff?

Exactly how is UAC any different than requiring admin access in OS X or Linux distros or traditional UNIX OSes? It's not. I really fail to see the problem with UAC; if you're used to running as admin, then run as admin, shut off UAC and take your chances that you're not JoeSixPack.

I had a hell of a time with activation. I will never early adopt (i.e. pre SP1) any microsoft Operating system ever again because of that hassle.

This is one thing I've not enjoyed; my main Vista install has prompted me for reactivation (which required a call to India) three times because I added or changed a single piece of hardware. Maybe this is because I'm on an OEM copy, but it's still 8 minutes out of my life.

Vista and Office 2007 are apparently selling well, despite all of the nasty FUD.

Microsoft is a gigantic flywheel. If you tolerate it long enough, it'll build up so much momentum that it simply can't be stopped.

That doesn't mean that everyone, or even a majority approve of it. It just means that it's really good at retaining momentum once it's started.

Microsofts game division posted a profit for the first time ever also !

I want to see the faces of all those trolls out there who have been predicting doom for M$. I remember the too many times I've read posts here about how M$ is falling, losing shares, Vista and Office as crap and not selling well. Man, when will trolls learn to put up or shut up?