My take on Vista (Score 1)

I'm not a techno but I will give my take on Vista. I've been running it for three months now on a brand new Dell Inspiron 1720 laptop with a 2.8 GHz Duo Core, 4 GB RAM and a nVidia 8600GT 256Mb video card running Windows Vista Ultimate. I also run MS Office 2007. I've been a PC/Microsoft advocate for a long time. Even after reading the negative reviews I was willing to give Vista a try. Honestly, the exeperience has been mixed. While I do like the new Aero interface, the needless complexities introduced and application crash issues (with MS Outlook and Explorer especially) have left a very sour taste in my mouth. Why does it take 4 clicks to change desktop settings when it used to 3? Why does it take four or more clicks to select a program from the menu when it used to take one? And why is the shut down now in a menu rather than a button. Heck, when the community has to write gadgets with shut down buttons and people rave about having it does this not tell MS that the way it is implemented in Vista is poor. Quite frankly, my next computer, which I will purchase this spring, will be a Mac. While I have long been one to defend MS against Mac, I find that I can't do this now. As a long time loyal customer of MS, this to me is most definately FUBAR and, in my opinion, seems to have been rushed out the door (even though it took five years) to stave off the on-slaught of Open Source, Mac and Google. My suggestion would be to go all hands on deck in MS and quickly release a new version of Windows that fulfill both the promises made and simplfies the interface better than XP. I agree the Aero interface and icons are much more contemporary and less cartoony as the XP, but at what cost? I feel the longer they leave this out there, the more damage it will do and the more will move to Linux and Mac. Right now, the biggest thing they have going for them is Games on Windows but how long will it take developers before they are releasing Mac versions of games at the rate that Mac is gaining market share.