the basis for most of what you will SEE, in Vista is to provide a new "look" to the 
Windows OS, and you can best see where Microsoft was trying to "Go Today" by looking 
at Mac OS X Tiger, its that close in many respects. But I digress.

The few security features will ADD a lot of overhead to your daily mouse clicking 
and management of pop-up warnings, notices, and request for confirmation that will 
"eat into your time" like never before. The number of notices to alter, agree, install, 
accept etc is almost constant when you attempt to do anything from nearly the most 
basic thing as changing the look or your colors, the Time and Date, not to mention 
installing files.

The protection Vista offers you now is more pronounced in a way that is "In Your 
FACE" with its chatty and vigilant attempt to regulate everything that happens (think 
of good old Office Clippy). While it is true that the system seems to be a better 
OS, the look and operation feel so much more like XP with a new shower curtain on 
it, than a really new OS.

Buttons and Control Panels, have been moved, removed, grouped differently, so much 
that you will spend a few days poking around the area just to see what is new, and 
mostly what is Different, as opposed to new.

The Aero views have some benefit in the Windows being somewhat Transparent when laid 
upon each other...you can see that there is something behind the window, but it is 
fuzzy and you cant see for sure what it says if it is a Named File Icon on your desktop, 
for instance. The transparency in Vista is a far cry from OS X, which lets you see 
a clearer view of the icons and windows behind your main window, and this is adjustable 
in a manner that Vista does not match.

I run a small network with a few Macs and PCs, access the web via cable modem and 
a WIFi B/G router, and use Vista on a newer PC with 2GB of DDR2 RAM, ATI 128mb video 
and Athlon 64 3400+, DVDRW and CDRW drives, a 160Gb and a 80GB EIDE (bootable) drives 
for XP and Vista, and one 250GB SATA for other data. I can tell you that on this 
system XP Pro is still Faster than Vista, so there surely must be some work left 
to do to make this thing ready for real users.

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