Microsoft Vista - Impression after one week

It has been one full week since I installed Microsoft Vista. Initially, I did not plan to use it as my permanent operating system. There are quite a number of softwares in my system reported to have problems running under Vista. My original thought was to switch over when most of these softwares are patched or updated to support Vista.

But the more I use it, the more I like it over XP! Partly, I think it is because of the new Aero3D user interface. It is always nice to see something flesh after using the out-of-the-box XP UI for the last 4 years. I know there are a lot of theme softwares to customize the UI for XP, but I am not the type of person to fiddle with them. Most of them are not original and simply imitate other UIs. The others are either straining to look at or not intuitive. Companies don't spend a large amount of effort doing usability and user acceptance tests for nothing.

Another reason I continue to use Vista is because most softwares seem to be working fine. The first thing installed is Java SE because I am a Java developer and many of my softwares are Java applications. Apps such as Intellij, Eclipse, Azureus, and Tomcat all seems to be working flawlessly. Next, I install a bunch of utility softwares I use regularly. I realized that most of them already have version upgrades for Vista already. They include Nero, Winrar, iTunes and audio video codec packs.

Next, I will try out the rest of my softwares, such as Photoshop, Office, Partition Manager and Perfect Disk to see if they have issues.