Wow! I never thought I would admit it but I really do like, no love, Windows Vista. I’ve installed it on my desktop computer and it’s been for the most part a very good experience. However, I don’t recommend it for notebooks at the moment. The two notebooks I have tried it on, runs a bit sluggish. As long as you have a new machine, with at least 2 gigs of RAM and a decent graphics card, Vista is beautiful. The last couple of weeks I’ve been working on my desktop and when I go to use my Macbook pro notebook, it feels a bit dated. Maybe it’s the Aero theme that has me hooked or the new sleek UI but whatever it is I’m hooked.
I did have some problems with the sound card drivers at first but I was able to get this resolved after digging through the forums. The other real problem I had was with Visual Studio 2005 not running as smooth as it should. This was resolved when I updated Visual Studio 2005 to Service Pack 1 and found a Vista update for Visual Studio 2005 sp1. After updating VS2005, it’s been working pretty well!
I did have to turn off the infamous “Cancel or Allow” dialogs! (If you’ve seen the new Apple commercial and have been using Vista, you know how true it is with dealing with that annoying dialog box.) This “interruption” was driving me bonkers. So much so I hated the whole Vista experience at first. I was about 10 minutes into reinstalling Windows XP, when I found out I could turn this off (The Apple commercial stated this could be done! Thanks Apple!!) and things got a lot better from there.The Speech recognition in Vista is AMAZING! I tried it out the other day and I’m truly impressed on how good it was. I won’t go into it here but it has come a long way! 
The other thing that may have had a positive influence is the new Office 2007. At first I was extremly worried about what Microsoft did to Office with the new Ribbon feature, but after using it to write some documents at work, I could not believe that this was not thought of sooner!
Well there you have it. A switcher that is not afraid to admit he likes something else beside OS X. The good news is I’ll have a new version of OS X in the next month or so. Hopefully I can fall back in love with my Apple again. I’m sure I will!
Oh! I almost forgot! My Seven year old son was asking to use the computer and he noticed it was no longer running Windows XP. He said to me “Is this a new Mac dad?” HAHA…That’s it! I like Windows Vista because it looks so much like OS X!!