Vista vs XP...

Vista is hilarious ! ...rather, the people that are installing it and
"using" it are hilarious, ...they seem to be mostly discussing "Aero," in
the Vista General NG...apparantly a Windows "theme" !!!! .....whereby one
is provided with a most wonderfully useful and pretty feature - windows
that are semi-transluscent around the edges ! GOSH ! ..what a major GUI
step forward that is ...WHAT A THRILL ..What a BENEFIT !!! ..ROFL !!!

I've been reading through that NG and one poor chaps "Aero" is apparantly
now not working properly, and he's blaming it on his having installed and
uninstalled lots of older software that's not fully Vista compatible !

It seems there's a heavy price to pay for simply having to have the latest
Windows OS/GUI platform with lovely semi-transparant frames, namely precious
little of ones older software works on it ! This is perhaps a similar
scenario to ones "move" from W98 to XP ...but, I think I can only remember
trouble with one W98 application program that played up in XP !

Then there's IE7 ...which - also seems to be BURSTING with faults, (and I
recently mistakenly thought it had gone "final" but, apparantly it hasn't) -
none of the "new" MS stuff looks very good does it ?

regards, Richard