I’m trying to be positive, Chris- Microsoft needs all the help I can give them 🙂

Actually, I like Vista- just some aspects of its behavior bug me, and most of that seems related to driver issues on my machine at least.

Mind you, I suspect that Vista was what finally tipped the scales for me and made me decide to get a Macintosh. The problems I had with my fancy hard drives “catastrophically failing” when Windows Vista went into standby, and the subsequent three or four times I had to perform complete rebuilds… at some point, it went from “intriguing” to “frustrating”.

The whole “putting the computer in standby” was an attempt on my part to save energy. Turning the machine off completely meant at least a couple of minutes delay for Vista to boot and get past all the normal background startup book keeping it does, so a quick check of email would be far from quick. Standby would solve that, but standby destroyed my hard drives.

The Mac, on the other hand, comes out of standby in about 5 seconds. I leave the Vista machine entirely powered off five days out of seven- problem solved 🙂