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My fist experience with Vista started bad and ended worst.*kidding* Not that Vista is a bad OS, it is good and pretty.
The installation was fast and easy, didn’t change anything, but I don’t have available space for vista, plus the slow graphics card (GeForce FX 5200 – 128mb), and a small pray, it worked and booted right.

In the first boot, I discovered that Vista has a boot manager – better than XP. After the first bootload Vista tested my Hardware and gave a few points for every section of it(processor, graphics, …) – got 2.6 at graphics…weeeee. After that was time to login and how pretty it was. Entered my new Desktop and voila – got amazed how good looking the windows are. Without the AERO theme it will look like XP, but the feel is another thing – the mouse interface with files remembered me of Gnome, and the right click scheme feels like Linux too…and then the first Blue Screen[forget the linux part] – Vista Crashed! It Crashed and has done a fast recovery, some count down and – boom – restart. The boot is incredibly fast for a ‘heavy like hell’ operative system and the login was just like a blink.

I won’t say much more, even because NVidia drivers didn’t work, they made the first crash and after a few tryouts I have quit – I didn’t spend much time trying to make them work, and didn’t crash anymore – and because of that, the graphics performance were a bit down.

I don’t want to tell you more, get it and see it for yourself.

P.S: Already removed Vista – Installed on Saturday Afternoon, removed in Sunday Night.

Yeah, the Windows Vista was release and I don’t want it for now…only because my PC sucks – 2.5GHz/1GB of RAM[I know...].
Microsoft made a big investment in this new OS. It has some great, and awesome features, like the 3D flip – remember the Alt+TAB? Well, instead of some crappy icons we have the “real” windows, see below.

For security they have added a lot new features. I’m not talking about anti spyware/ad-aware – included in this version – but I am talking about programs run and execution. You will be asked, like linux, to insert your administrator password every time you need to mess up with the system.

And even more: they were smart enough to keep unstable “things” away from system kernel, like the device drivers – they said that the majority crashes could be from those little things. They added a few more things to easy your online life, and others for you work, many of them could be better, but just trying I can say more about that.

To conclude: see it for your self, spend some money and hope for some free blue screens.