balmer and gates know the back seat of a certant grand prix very well

Hey, don't hate.

I tried the whole Linux thing. It'* useless to me. I can do everything I need with Windows. The only reason I'll use Linux is just to satisfy my geek side and learn a thing or two about it. Same thing with Apple.

I have found nothing else that is as functional to me as MS Windows and Office.

The features of Open Office hardly compare to O2k7.

no hating just different strokes for different folks

but whenever your ready to come to the dark side just drop a PM (don't worry i won't tell)

i just cheated and downloaded the vista visual dispaly program... it makes my puter look like i have vista on it....

its cool but i just spent 4 credit hrs last sem so i can say im office 03 trained now i have to take that freakin class all over agin.... but i like the program!!!!!

This is interesting. I am currently looking for a new computer. I am a bit concerned with getting one with VIst because of its newness. I am having ahard time geting on still with XP though. Still trying to figure out what to do.
I am definitely a Windows guy, but I do have had problems with IE 7 myself.

One thing I have found that I don't like about Vista. I do some paper modeling, which involves having several pictures/PDFs open at the same time. I have yet to have Vista'* "Group similar taskbar buttons" actually group them. And there are no powertoys yet to tweak this feature...

One downside I am noticing is that the sidebar does not want to refresh all the time. I have my Outlook Tasks and Calendar on it, and when I update to a new task or make a change, it does not update right away. Maybe there'* some registry tweaks to this?

I also turned UAC off. That'* just plain annoying. I'm sure it'* great for the click-happy folk, but I don't need it.

In all actuality, XP SP2 works fine for me, and I can always put a nice skin over it to make it look like Vista ... or even OS/X . I got it for free though, and I have a ton of storage space, so I'll be playing with this for a while.

how did you turn of uac? i hate how it blanks out hte screen everytime i do something some what out of the ordinary haha

You need to get to the User Accounts page. Then you will see a link to get to security settings. From there you will have the option to turn it off. Then reboot.