mkjones

I have been using Vista a little bit on my new PC over the past couple of days and first impressions have been pretty good.

The most striking change from XP is of course the way it looks. The whole thing bleeds elegance and gloss and instantly gains respect.

I have yet to get down to the real guts of the new system yet as most of the time I have simply been watching progress bars transfer files from my old PC. But already I feel more excited and enthusiastic when using my new computer.

Vista has, perhaps unfairly, had a lot of stick over the past few months and I believe a lot of this comes from simple fear of change. There is arguably no need for Vista. XP does the job for most users and will do for a long time, so why change? Why move away from the comfort zone? Why not wait until the inevitable bug-fix service pack is released?

All of these are very good arguments. But, I for one welcome the introduction of Vista and see it as a worthy replacement for XP and a strong advisory for more ‘modern’ OSs such as OSX and the ever popular Ubuntu.