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

Windows Vista still sucks.

Release Candidate 1 my ass.  This thing is a clumsy, disjointed, counter-intuitive piece of crap.  They’ve been working on this since XP came out and THIS is IT?  It’s horrible.  Terrible.  Atrocious.  Unbelievably so. 

It goes without saying that OSX is simple and elegant compared to Vista, but the terrible thing is that XP is ALSO simple and elegant compared to Vista.  I cannot tell you how horrid this thing is. 

Now, for those of you who were unfortunate enough (as I was) to try to install Vista in VMWare (and discovered that you can’t), there is a fairly simple workaround.

Add the following lines to your virtual machine’s configuration file (.vmx) before installing Vista:

svga.maxWidth = “640”
svga.MaxHeight = “480”

After Vista is installed, install the VMware Tools and then shutdown the virtual machine. Remove the added lines from the configuration file and then power the virtual machine back on.  You should then be good to go.

I’ve even gotten GroupWise to work on Vista, and that’s a feat that not too many people seem to have accomplished so far.  I basically had to install GroupWise 7.01, uninstall it, uninstall WIndows Messaging, and then install GroupWise again.  Then it appears to work. 

Anyway, I think whoever designed the Vista interface needs to be not just fired but killed. 

The more I use Windows the more I love my Mac.