I'll admit it's getting better, especially with SP1, but I don't like the way it deals with the network. I found it to be quite slow and although tweaks such as the TCP autotuning disable, disabling unneeded services etc did improve it, it's still slower than XP. I still find it quicker to log in to a 2003 server to set NTFS permission (which I have to do regularly) than to attempt to do it straight from Vista, even with the added login time.

It's not so much a dislike anymore I suppose, it has grown on me (like a tumor). It's that actually there are no killer features in Vista that make me want it. Windows Aero leaves me cold, I mean honeslty how often do you use the scrolling apps feature? Besides to call collegues over and show them how cool it looks? The search feature is not something I have ever found I need (I know where things are!) and UAC is a pain. I know I can disable UAC, and I know from a security point of view it is an additional layer of protection (such as better protection pre-patch with the recent XML data vulnerability MS08-078), but as a network admininstrator I just found it endlessly irritating.

I guess actually XP just did everything I wanted, and Vista to me only offered the same, but at a slower speed.

I use Vista, and I like it (on my bleeding edge PC with hardware all chosen specifically for Vista).

That said: Vista is still awful for any organization trying to roll it out over multiple types of machines. I did some technical contracting for a school district recently and they gave me a list of reasons why they refuse to support Vista on their server. It was quite large.

Also: XP was the exact same way at the stage Vista is on now. It was a complete cluster:censor: trying to get it to support drivers when you had multiple you were working with. It took quite a while (and mostly was solved by hardware devs finally rolling out XP compatible drivers) to get XP to be so functional. Vista will get there eventually. The problem is Microsoft not supporting backwards compatibility that actually works.

7 being released so soon is a pain my my because that means I'm going to have to buy it to stay up to date with MCSE, and I only bought Vista like 8 months ago.

The difference between XP and Vista is that XP eventually stabilized and became a very good OS. I have yet to see that on Vista. I used my sister's laptop that has Vista on it for two weeks, and had more problems with it in those two weeks than I ever had with my archaic computer with XP on it.

It looks nice. It's pretty. It seems as though it would run really well. But it doesn't. I'll wait for Windows 7 , because that's going to take the best from both worlds.

It's all good there. He has XP Home Edition, and both of my CD's are XP Home Edition. I hate how Vista has half a dozen different package levels. I miss having just Home and Professional. Hopefully Windows 7 doesn't turn out to be a complete up.