A View to a Vista
And you thought that I wasn’t going to get in a post today :). Yeah, I’m talking to you, Mr. Bot that’s indexing my page right now.
After being split over two nights, I finally got a copy of Vista Beta 2 that I installed this afternoon. While it’s still obviously in beta, it does look very nice. I will admit that I am typing this in XP right now because some applications (Trillian, for example (since AIM won’t install in Vista)) force Vista to drop out of Aero Glass, and part of using it is admittedly for the eye candy. So far I haven’t seen anything that would make me want to use Vista over XP immediately, but I’ll definitely keep booting into it to experiment (and also because the bootloader will default to it if I don’t pay attention during startup). Maybe in a week or so after I’ve sat down with it more I’ll post a list of things I like/dislike about it, but I think it will be a nice release once that time comes around.