Of my last 2 laptops: one has XP Pro, the other is Vista. My chief complaint with Vista (& the MS Office that goes with it) is that they completely changed the menus making it impossible to work with. Why’d they have to do this? I like the XP machine because the menus are close to my Win2K desktops, but I have to hunt for everything with Vista.
Truth be told, I’d be a lot further along the learning curve with Vista by now if I didn’t have (& prefer) the XP machine.
I was at Circuit City and asked a tech-clerk if he could help me find something on the Vista-installed computer. He looked for 5 minutes and couldn't find it. That, plus the 5 minutes I put into looking, was all I needed to know that Vista wasn't going to be very good.