ByronM - 6:23 pm on May 24, 2006 (gmt 0)

Which many people seem underwhelmed by. It's not clear that the new interface is going to help productivity - for old dogs there are lots of new tricks that need to be learnt. Aero Interface enhancements Eye candy. Great way to slow down a fast PC. How exactly does being able to see through some bits of my desktop help my productivity? :-) User Account Control

I dunno, Have you tried it? Transparency is great for people who work on PC's for a living.

This is driving people up the wall - and a majority seem to want to turn it straight off. It's a bit like sudo with all the good stuff taken out, and a lot of MSFT eye-candy thrown in :-)

Well, if you choose to do that you pay the price. A properly setup unix box needs root for nothing. A properly setup Vista would be the same. Vista virutalizes the hardware so you don't need to reboot to install devices and if your granted the ability to do so more power to you.

The search function has a few... err... unusual features. It also eats CPU cycles, and batteries if you're on a laptop. Seems to get turned off pretty quickly by many users.

Have you used Desktop Search? the first thing it says is it will follow your profile. If your doing anything its not indexing and if your on battery it isn't indexing. YOu have to CHOOSE to enable those.. Same goes with every other desktop search i've seen.

SuperFetch - accelerated Boot & Application Loadup IMHO it remains to be seen if Vista will run as fast as XP on similar hardware. Right now it definitely doesn't.

You miss the point of this feature. Superfetch requires the appropriate hardware and isn't mean to make Vista run as fast as XP on old hardware.

From where I'm standing, Vista is a long way from being a "must-have" upgrade.

Just where are you standing? Are you a developer? Are you an end user? Are you interested in Next Gen Gaming? Are you looking for more security? Are you looking to take advantage of the higher throughput and capacity it can handle? Are you running multiple cores? Do you spend hours writing docuemnts? Do you have multiple desktops and windows open and do lots of multitasking? Just what do you do on your PC? Are you into seemless networking, sharing, document/image and data sharing? do you do desktop publishing? are you interested in PVR, HDTV content or online media? do you want something that challenges computing as it is today or what?

<humour>It has cool effects which will appeal to teenagers ;-) but for those of us over 19, I'm not so sure.</humour>

I'm 30.. i see past the "coolness" of the GUI and the real update to the guts.

Many of the features look great the first time you see them, but after an hour or so you realise that that you're experiencing yet another waste of time or CPU cycles (remember Clippy?)... and then you start looking for how to turn it off.

Sounds like the entire Mac product line.. Cool until you realiase you just traded one headache for another.

Clippy? thats so 1997 its not even funny. With success comes lots of failure but you don't even know your highs and lows until you experience them. I think MS is on to something and most people are holding grudges for the wrong (childish) reasons.

Roll on GoogleOS :-)

OH great.. talk about preaching something thats all fluff and hot air. Your comments have real validity now!

BTW, i use Linux, Solaris, Windows and OSX. They all serve a great purpose and i'm not Microsoft fanboy by anymeans.. i was an OS/2 biggot for years and now i just run what works but i'm seriously interested in seeing Vista push the envelop in personal computing and look forward to what we saw in 1995 when computing had to catch up to the software that was coming down in not just the OS but the Games and everything else made possible.