Windows Vista, so... whats it like? Options

[Tartan Bunny]

I might get a new laptop with Vista.
Someone persaude/dissaude me.
Found something useful called vista transformation.
downloads the toolbars, screensaver etc. from vista.

[Clazzy]

It will happen, just not instantly. There's a lot of buzz going around the internet with regards to Ubuntu, Google is now seeing Linux as a viable target (hence Picasa and Google Earth being available for Linux), Adobe are seeing it too (Flash 9 is now available, we never got Flash 8) and so on.
Microsoft took over with the favourable conditions available (computers dropping in price, wider availability, people not wanting to spend an arm and a leg on a Mac). Basically, there was little point in Microsoft innovating in the OS market because they already had a monopoly share. The same happened once Netscape was taken out of the running, there were no major feature updates to IE for years, then Firefox came on the scene and took a 15% market share. OSX and Linux are both far more innovative than Vista, the big reason as to why Vista is actually going to be relatively successful is because it comes preinstalled on virtually all computers made after about last January. At least with Dell accepting Ubuntu as a genuine competitor means that we might finally get a fair market for operating systems now, rather than one all-dominating one.