I have have Microsoft Windows Vista for a couple of weeks but I only got around to installing it a few days ago, although most of it was because I was on holiday for two weeks. The install process looked good but was not overly pleasent (for some reason my first two attempts failed at around 10 percent). I then tried to install drivers for my wireless network card which were not compatable with Vista and killed it so I had to re-install it.

Appart from the install there have been few other problems. My only real complain is that it can be slow, but that is mostly because it is still in Beta development and not all the code has been fully optimised yet. Vista really does look nice although it is posible to achive a simaler look in Window XP it is nice not having to break some of the security to do it. I like when I press Alt + Tab (keyboard short-cut to switch between open windows) you get a thumbnail of the window, same when you run the mouse over the tabs on the start bar at the bottom of the screen.

I am not that pleased with the performance of Vista, I have one gigabyte of memory installed and the lowest I have seen the usage is 51 percent which is about 520 megabytes. On Windows XP I would normally expect a memory usage of around 350 to 400 megabytes. However, my processor seems to be making light work of it with normal usage around ten percent. I have been thinking about upgrading to two gigabytes of memory recently so I guess now is as gooder time as any.

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