Windows Vista offers more than just a pretty user interface with transparent window effects. You want to know all about Vista, and so did we. Here's what we found.

You love time warping don't you?
It's /05/31/  

It's looking pretty good. The interface and visual are very nice. Though I hope it wouldn't just give better ergonomics and productivity but performance as well.  

That's my Windows Vista.  

Hot!  

plenty of screen shots and not one that looks like it came from a microsoft promotion, good good.  i'm sure after a while it will become normal and plain.   still, i like the 3d windows, that looks good.
 
  i will be more interested in directx though as i really only use my windows to launch games from,  with a little web browsing and music playing.  oh is their going to be a new media player, can't see it mentioned.
 
  oh and wusy, is that the best woman you could come up with.  she just doesn't do anything for me tbh.  you kiwi's must be desperate people,  all them sheep must make any woman look good.

 
 LMFAO!  

PERFORMANCE!! Show some info on that! No processor speed/ram issue was involved in the review!!

Nice article but you make no mention of the fact of Windows Vista's major downfall.  Its huge systems requirements.  Show a screenshot of the task manager showing the commit charge and see how well people react.  We just got Beta 2 installed yesterday at work.  I like the new sidebar and how they ripped it off from these guys:
 
http://www.desktopsidebar.com/

ye there seems to be alot of, tributes shall we say to other software.

Oh it's more than hot.
The $4000 OS I'm using now isn't even commercially avaliable yet.

The OS I am running cost several billion dollars and isn't commercially available either (But I know where you can download a copy of it off of BitTorrent...)

Nice review but you failed to mention the hardware requirements.
 
I have not been able find any reason to upgrade my XP box with free firewall and antivirus to a VISTA system, This review changes nothing.
 
In my opinion Vista looks like XP with a lot of annoying eye candy, idiot proof desktop and a big load of system requirements.  
 
Christ look at page 33 what person needs the help of an OS to know how to play FreeCell

 
Hmm, this is what they said in the article^^ In the conclusion.... But i really think that 95% of people ould disagree with the statement you made about Vista outshining Mac OS aesthetically speaking....

As for a media player, WMP11beta is up at M$ right now.

I would agree with you there, i have both the Vista Beta 2 and MacOSX x86 running on pc's at home, OSX is more pleasing to the eye, but honestly.....its not as comfortable after growing up on windows.
 
Even linux borrows more from the UI organisation of windows than it does from OSX,( although last Ubuntoo distro i sudes had option where u could configure it to look like either)
 
1 thing i can tell you is that every person (mostly girls/women) that i have shown vista to, have said it was very "pretty" and they love the bubbles sceensaver, as do i. i think the new UI will go a ways to encourage non-techies to migrate.  
 
outside of these forums, there is no fight between OSX and Windows, office workers use XP at work and they'll use it at home. thats just the way it is.
 
my 2 cents of course

The one good things about Vista is that it actually is a multi-user OS.  As far as is it better than OS X, I don't really like OS to begin with.  Graphically the two are about equal but I hate the interface of OS X.  I have a G4 iBook that I use as a DVD player on planes (I paid $75, an 80 series Flowmaster muffler, and some old computer parts for it).
 
BTW, anyone know how to make your damn desktop icons in OS X stay in the same place and stay aligned?  Really annoying that every time I boot it up the Hard drive icon and others are not where I put them last.  I right click but theres no align to grid option or anything available.  Yet another thing Mac hides away in the depths of menus.

As others have asked so far, it would be interesting to see how resource-hungry Vista is.  
 
Also, how is this pagefile / RAM-unloading working IRL?

It usually takes a commit charge of 600MB when doing normal stuff like using office and IE7,
 
but i must say it it running rather smooth on my test pc
 
Celeron 3.03Ghz @ 3.7Ghz
512MB DDR333, single channel
80GB HDD
ATI 9600 256MB
 
Inspiron 9300
2.0Ghz Dothan
512MB DDR2 533, dual channel
60GB 5400rpm HDD
Nvidia 6800 Go 256MB

Well at least it looks better than Fisher Price Windows (XP).  I doubt I'll get it just because of the system requirements and all that crap that I don't need or want.  And if games stop supporting DX9 or DX10 isn't available on XP then I'll just move to linux entirely and be done with it.  But I guess it takes some advantage of all the processing power people with midrange dell PCs who use them to check their email.