Yesterday was the big consumer launch for Vista and I meant to post this yesterday but beers always take precedent. I’ve been using Vista and Office 2007 at work for right at a month. You can read reviews everywhere. So I’ll keep this short. The first thing you will do if you’re a power user is to turn off the User Access Control. It hoses up a lot of apps like Visual Studio. Vista is pretty but so is OS X. It is clearly a knock off and I don’t find many reasons to upgrade. I have not tried the Media Center version (Ultimate) but I suspect I’ll upgrade to that soon on my mediabox. Obviously icons are moved and you’ll need to hunt around for a few things which is aggrevating. If you want to upgrade for the sexy factor, which is probably the single most compelling reason to, then that is your call. I am not that impressed.
Office 2007, on the other hand, is well worth the upgrade. It is a very well designed and implemented. Obviously Outlook is used the most and the built in RSS reader is fantastic. I can add work related feeds to that and not get distracted by my other feeds in Google Reader. And they are much easier to store and sort. Not had a need to do anything with Access 2007 but I have run some 2003 apps in it to see if they worked and they did. Excel/Word/InfoPath/OneNote have been opened and run but only minimally. Still I give it two big thumbs up!

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007 @ 11:37 am Business, Technology
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