Our PC vendor is rolling out vista in a few months.   At work.    I was asked to check whether some of our more commonly used applications would work on Vista. It was my job to take the testing vista lap top, install the packages and play around with them. Easy, it’ll take an hour. Or so you might think. The vista boot took at least ten minutes. I kid you not. The “building desktop” wheel kept going around and around and around. Trying to switch the Vista bubbly bubbles off in the start bar caused the whole start bar to display that display message beloved by all computer users in the title bar. “Not Responding”. Tweaking settings crashed the Vistaness. A reboot later, all was well in the world. Except for the toolbar gadget. I didn’t like that. I switched it off. Downloads took much much longer than the same download did on old machine running the old MS operating system. Installing them - message after message “unknown application, danger, danger red alert”. Fuck Off! I know what I am installing. Obviously MS have gone for the lowest common demoninator here. Only an imbicile uses MS operating systems is clearly is their mantra. People who want speed and to be treated like they have a brain choose Linux or have a Mac. Everytime I opened a new program, I felt like some artist was behind the screen colouring in the pixels, stuff took an age to install. Really simple tasks were definitely slower. I don’t know how much memory the test pc had, but the vistaness is NASTY. I do not like it. Two hours later I was finished my task. Vista? I am sorry it has come into view.