So I am still here.

Just been a bit quiet on the blog front.

I've finally made the jump to Vista as my primary OS- I havbe two vista boxes on my desk and one XP box that I share with Skip... about to upgrade to 5472 this morning.

So far my thoughts....

1. Sick and tired of playing “UAC-A-Mole*...
   i.e. constantly having to press those bloody security dialogs away. I am VERY close to running as Administrator again which should make all this go away. I have to run a few apps elevated- running VS2k3 elevated for example
2. The search box still rocks the Casbah.
   THis is the little box at the bottom of the start menu. I've always been a big WindowsKey-R kinda guy.... now I just press windows key, type what I want and off we go. It is my fave feature of vista so far.
3. Outlook 2007 is working
   But only via RPC over HTTP (Exchange Anywhere in 2007). I LOVE the new flag for follow up management. This is my favourite new Outlook feature. It's let me reclaim my calendar from being a task pad again.
4. Vista is SLOOOOWWWW
   Quite obviously still running debug code all through it. It's slow as a gdog even on my highly spec'd 64 bit notebook with 2GB or RAM.
5. IE7 is flakey on Vista
   Not sure why... I was using it without trouble on XP but its being quite flakey

I'm now at about the stage where I couldn't go back to Office 2003. I could *probably* still bear to part with Vista.... but it's certainly growing on me.