To sum up my primary gripe with Vista, it's made about 90% of the
desktop hardware out there "obsolete" in the blink of an eye.
Just remember when Apple came out with x86-based OS X. That was a 100% of desktop hardware made obsolete. As I understand it, you could turn down the effects in Vista to make it run on older hardware without the pretty Aero look.

Anyhow, I'm excited about Vista. As many of you have pointed out, it's a step in the right direction. But, I'm a coward too, and will be slow in adopting it at least until the company I work for does so.

This will also probably be the first MS product I will buy since my dad bought me Visual Basic 3.0 about 13 years ago, heh I was (very) young and stupid...

What I find especially interesting is the fact that Bill Gates is responding to Apple's criticism. If I held 90% of market share, I wouldn't even grace Newsweek with a response to those questions, let alone respond in a way that he did. Now, he has acknowledged that Jobs got under his skin, and gives Apple more ammunition. I would really hate for MS to start a public flamewar and stoop to Apple's level, because it won't be pretty for anyone involved.

--ik

P.S. It's good to be back -- my corporate firewall is preventing access to AO (which is really a shame, since I get a lot of work-related useful information from here) which is why I haven't been here for a very, very long time.