[KoRn]

I installed Vista beta 2 last week just to check it out. I installed it on a p4 3.4GHz machine with 1GB of ram and it would barely run. It was so slow I had to click on a menu and wait on most things. The layout isn't bad, but it will be a bit of a learning curve for most users of Windows.

The visual style and layout of the OS reminded me allot of KDE in the Linux world. I'll stop short of suggesting they ripped off KDE, but the resemblance is striking.

[CedarDave]

If Vista is such a terrible memory hog and Windows is much more subject to malware (Is Windows inherently more vulnerable to malware attacks than OS X?), and gives you untold grief if you have to reinstall a hard drive (need to purchase a new OS disc, OEM disk not allowed) and further if OS X will run all my Windows programs, I will seriously consider moving to Apple and OS X for my next upgrade.