I'm very impressed, from a customer service standpoint, with Vista.

Now I know that there is lots of animosity towards the OS, but what do you really like about it?

Here's my list.

  • Network and Sharing Center - I love the collection of all the basic networking tools gathered into one place. And the visual map and netwroking troubleshooter built in makes this a godsend for anyone that answers a 'my internet stopped working' call.

    User Account Control - I know this is the number one thing people hate about it. But honestly, its just a GUI version of the 'su' command. It grants admin rights for a instant so you can make a hazardous system change. Yes its annoying, but think of it as 'su' and it takes alot of the problems I had with it away.

    Parental Controls - Take out the parental, and substitute it with administrative.. Makes maintaining a system with HDD quotas, time frame restrictions, sites you don't want users accessing, etc... All built in, no 3rd party products.

    Start menu Live Search - Run command, search bar (even web searches)

    Virtualization - I like it when I don't have to cleanup my girlfriend's desktop icons or downloaded files to organize my system. They all save to her account no matter where she thinks she places them. She can find them, I don't have to worry about clutter on my account or when I'm in Fedora.

    Disk Management - Ability to take a disk and change the partition on it without a format is great. And the fact that I didn't have to do it with anything other than windows makes it better. I don't like spending money on the tools I should have gotten with my OS.


Do any of you have any things you like about Vista?