Welcome to The Hoosier Illuminati. Macintosh bigot, clothes horse, motorsports fanatic (as long as they turn right), Anglophile.

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance. --Henry Ward Beecher

Vista RC2

So I threw a copy of Vista RC2, Office 2007 Beta and the technical refresh on the VMWare machine, and oddly enough I don’t find it nearly as revolting as RC1 was.  They’ve fixed a lot of what really hacked me off, and GroupWise loaded without my having to cast a spell over the computer. 

There’s still some tediousness about it.  I don’t want to have to click OK/Allow twelve times to do EVERYTHING, just make me enter a password once like OSX does and let the system go about its business.  Why do you make the screen dim every time a dialog pops?  Geez, I hate that.  I’m still not completely sure I like the Start button (or the Windows button or whatever you’re calling it now.) Run really ought to be easier to get to.  But they have smoothed it out considerably, I think it’s nearly usable now.  I still don’t plan on spending any money to upgrade to it until I have to though. 

Office 2007 is great, I like it.  The ribbon is probably the best interface innovation Microsoft has come up with in a long time.  Again, I’m not sure I’m spending any money on it at work any time soon.  As nifty as the ribbon is, I figure it’s going to cost a ton of money in retraining costs, and since Office 2003 still works fine, well…

As much as I like what I see, there’s nothing there that makes me want to upgrade to it and especially not throw out my Macs.