Yeah. This is my second go around with it. It's better now because most programs have patches or upgrades to work with it.
My first time (about two years ago) NOTHING I had seemed to work with it.
If you have a lot of memory I think it's a great OS though. I'm playing around with the sidebar stuff right now and it's so cool. I've got four different bars, one just for music stuff (a media player that shows the art and lyrics of whatever I'm playing, search engines for itunes and amazon.com, etc.).
I'm trying to see how many people use it because they CLAIM it's not too hard to make a gadget for that sidebar and I'd like to make an FFR player. MZ and I have talked about this before, but not for Vista I don't believe. I think there was something else we were considering making a widget for.
The computer we got at church for playing audio and video stuff on the screen is running Vista. Every Sunday, its always a question of how many times we'll have to (re)start it before it gets to where it will not have the monitor blinking on and off or when It will get to where it will play nice with the projector.
Well, I know there's a LOT of negative thoughts on Vista out there, but I really like the program overall.
The only negative I've really encountered has been some old programs that don't work anymore, but not so much that it's a problem.
Two years ago my email program didn't even work, but they've since come out with a Vista version.
For me, the gadgets make the OS. I liked the Google Widgets, but they weren't as flexible as the Gadgets are on Vista. This is my desktop now...
The Windows Media Player in the upper left hand corner is really cool. It shows the artwork for the song playing, and one click brings up the lyrics to the song in a pop out window.
I can have constantly updating RSS feeds. One is for friends blogs, one is for music news, one is for MLB news and one is for NFL news.
On the sidebar I have date, time, weather and a photo viewer that rotates photo's from my computer every 15 seconds.
that side bar has several pages, other pages are dedicated to ebay, or music, or movies.
I'm really finding Vista to be pretty useful in that I can set it up so that anything that's important to me can be seen/read before I even open a browser every day.
Time will tell if people embrace it or if Microsoft has to move onto a new OS to get people to accept it.
I think the difference for me is that I work at 2 different computers, one which has XP. So if I set it up the way I like it at home, I still have to use iGoogle at work. This way, I have one setup that works for both. I guess I'm more attracted to being able to access my info from any computer, than the appeal of customization of the computer I'm on.
I just got a new laptop that came with Vista, I don't mind it, I would still take OSX over any windows operating system any day but so far it is working fine.... but lets see how it goes!
