[roamer_1]

What drives me crazy is that Microsoft wastes so much of people's time figuring out where they hid some feature that was in a perfectly reasonable place before.

Absolutely. More so, their utter refusal to change the thing in a positive direction- Offering a unified and easy means to shovel "userland" OFF the system partition as a perfect example (a pet peeve of mine).

[Cold Heat]

The OS is different. Yo have a bit of a re-learning experience, but if you look at it rationally, vista is better organized, and does a lot of stuff such as maintenance so automatically that it does not need to be found, but all the manual characteristics for people who like to do things manually are there, but accessed differently from XP.

I have both, but find that vista is way more intuitive and better organized.

[null and void]

What drives me crazy is that Microsoft wastes so much of people's time figuring out where they hid some feature that was in a perfectly reasonable place before.

You'll simply LOVE the new menus in MS 'awful-us' 2007.