In article >,
"cybercat" > wrote:

> It's not so bad after all. It is installed on my new business laptop, and is
> fairly straightforward and logical to use. Looking at the system
> requirements, I imagine it might be cumbersome on lighter systems, but with
> a 3.0 ghz processor, 4 gbs of memory and a 250 gb hard drive, it does fine.
>
> (OE is no more, but "Windows Mail" is essentially the same thing--both mail
> and news in the same interface, like OE.)

I am a Mac user, but I use Vista every day in small doses for work. My
Vista installation has hardly any software on it. Just MS Office 2007,
and two Java apps. Nothing else. I do not keep any data on that PC.
Period. I seriously doubt that anyone has a more bland and vanilla Vista
system as I do. Despite that, Vista has crashed on me hard several
times. I had to reinstall it at least three times before I finally got
it to a point where it is reasonably stable. I saw a demo of Windows 7
beta recently and it looks a lot better than Vista. The big thing about
Windows 7 that appeals to me is that Microsoft finally is taking out
those annoying pop up status balloons. They are so damned annoying in
Vista and XP. Windows 7 has those notifications, but they can be
configured to appear from within a system utility instead of being so
intrusive on the screen. Then again, I get almost all the functionality
of Windows 7 already on my Mac via Mac OS X. Vista only users had to
wait years for much of the functionality we Mac users have, and on top
of that, the cost to buy the full featured Vista is an outright rip off.