I tried the RC1 of Vista and thought that it was horrible. It didn't like my computer and I didn't like it. Then when I got a copy from work I decided to try it anyway. As it turns out it isn't that bad. I turned off the UAC because of it asking many times "Are you sure you want to copy that file?" I turned off the sidebar gadgets too help reduce overhead. Yes, it requires a nice computer since at idle it takes up ~550mb of ram but if you do have such a computer it works nicely. It actually did save a laptop HD that XP could not see and no trial data recovery program could copy the Documents and Settings folder. I plugged in the HD (usb adapter) and Vista saw it was damaged, asked if I wanted to fix it, and after it was done XP could see and access everything on it. I know it will not work for many companies because of the hardware requirements but it is better than XP and will hopefully be better after the first big service pack.
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I tried the RC1 of Vista and thought that it was horrible. It didn't like my computer and I didn't like it. Then when I got a copy from work I decided to try it anyway. As it turns out it isn't that bad. I turned off the UAC because of it asking many times "Are you sure you want to copy that file?" I turned off the sidebar gadgets too help reduce overhead. Yes, it requires a nice computer since at idle it takes up ~550mb of ram but if you do have such a computer it works nicely. It actually did save a laptop HD that XP could not see and no trial data recovery program could copy the Documents and Settings folder. I plugged in the HD (usb adapter) and Vista saw it was damaged, asked if I wanted to fix it, and after it was done XP could see and access everything on it. I know it will not work for many companies because of the hardware requirements but it is better than XP and will hopefully be better after the first big service pack.