It must be Kismet; my home computer is now on Vista and Office 2007
by
Charlie Bess
The week after Office 2007 and Vista go to Mfg., my main hard drive breaks on my home computer. By the time I got home to fix it, both products show up in MSDN. I spend most of Friday night and Saturday salvaging what I could from the last full back up and any interim data and brought the new drives up with Vista and Office 2007.
So far Vista has been a breeze. Although they've diminished the functionality of MovieMaker (no more being able to have it search for scene changes) and the audio controls are harder to work with than in XP. Overall it has been easy for my wife to make the switch.
The backup capabilities of Vista are significantly enhanced. For some reason I was drawn to those features especially. ;-)
Office 2007 on the other hand is taking a great deal more effort. For those who don't know shortcuts (like CTL-A for select all), it was very frustrating finding the tasks you were familiar with. Things are definitely not where you're used to finding them. On the other hand, if you have never used office before, it may be more productive.
I have found only a few programs that will not run in Vista. There is an OS emulation mode that seems to help out of the few programs that cared.
My wife's comment about the experience was "If you wanted to switch to Vista, there must have been an easier way."
