The Perils of Vista

I finally got my hands on the new operating system and let me just say this - I'm not sure that it is a good idea to upgrade.

Although installation was a breeze, software incompatibilities were a lot! I don't have antivirus software installed (Zonealarm hasn't released a Vista compatible version yet), I almost lost my Microsoft Money file, my Outlook files can't be imported (although I figured out a workaround and worst of all - I LOST MY F*CKIN ITUNES PLAYLIST!!!! That's right! For one reason or another, my Itunes library was corrupted or damaged and can't be imported to the new OS. All my ratings, playlists, and all other metadata were erased from the library and I have to rebuild everything from the ground up.

I won't say I didn't expect this, but actually it went better than I thought it would. The graphics are much nicer, although my laptop didn't fare very well with a Vista experience rating of 1.0(!) which meant that it could only run the Vista Basic software. My primary computer though was average (3.3) - with dual NVIDIA Geforce 6600 on SLI, 2GB DDR RAM, two 300GB SATA HDD, AMD 64 X2 4200+ (overclocked).

Upgrade-wise, I think I will do the video card in the near future, when DirectX 10 cards won't cost more than $400!