“Everything is in the wrong place” – Really? So your argument that because you had to learn something new you went back to XP? Uhmmm from someone who has been running 7 builds since before PDC… they are in the same place as Vista for the most part. so are you going to run back to your XP safe haven when you realize that? Also I am suprised you arent writing more articles about Server 2003… because gosh darn things are in way different locations on Server 2008.. better retreat to the older versions!

UAC issues – You can manage UAC in Vista just as easily as you can in Windows 7. The difference is what the settings are out of the box, and it could be argued that the concessions made actually made 7 a little less secure than Vista. Remember not everyone in the world is as tech savy as most of the Vista haters really portray.

Now I am all for Windows 7 coming out and I can’t wait. I was the same way for Vista though, mostly because I love to play with new releases. I think Vista had issues, but so did XP, I mean you are on SP3.. XP was released in 2001 and SP 3 was released in 2008 – 7 years is a lot of time to iron out the rough patches. For those of us that were doing support when XP came out, I was less than amused to have to leave my beloved Windows 2000 Pro workstation. There were plenty of issues with XP on release and it was all about hardware/driver issues just like Vista. Xp was more resource intensive then W2K Pro also, which caused quite a bit of hand wringing at the time. Talk about things being different from one release to the next, that was just brutal trying to find things in XP when you were used to Windows 2000.

You know your one of my favs Gosia, and this article could have listed all the positive virtues of Windows 7 but instead you spent a better part of the article kicking Vista when it is already down… really what is the point of that? You could have mentioned the good parts of Vista that got moved to Windows 7 (which there are many), but I guess it isnt as fun to go against the crowd.

Dave