- I am glad it finally comes with address book that is usable and have nothing to do any email client. However, after all this years, with OS X as example, people at Microsoft still don't know how to make an OS that is user friendly. The Windows Contact is not even close to the Contacts in Outlook. For example, how hard it is to put on A-Z index?! Also, why can't Vista make it easy for home user to import addresses from current Outlook contacts? CVS is so techie! I had to help my wife export it from Outlook using CVS file, and later import into Windows Contact.
- Windows Photo Gallery is a joke! First, after you pop in the memory card for your camera into the notebook, it doesn't know what to do with it. There is no dialog for import or whatsoever. You have to open up the Photo Gallery yourself, and import them manually into the Photo Gallery. The worse is that it thinks every import is associated to a single event. So, while importing, it prompts for a tag name, and the tag name is used as the folder name, and all the photos go into this folder. Forget about fixing your photos in the Photo Gallery; it doesn't know how to fix anything! Don't even try to export the photo into smaller size; it doesn't have that functionality! Go get yourself Picasa 2 from Google. It is free and does all the photo things correctly. The best thing is it runs on 2000/XP/Vista.
- Navigation in Vista is a nightmare. Everything is layered deep within who knows what. I felt like I am using the old Mac.
- Many features in Vista are there simply because Microsoft need to claim that Vista has just as many features as other Operating Systems. It is purely marketing, and not considering values and user friendliness of those features.
So, if you think you want Vista because it is pretty, don't get it. Stay with XP, and use all the free software out there that can give you just as many functionalities in Vista
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