Windows Vista First Impressions

I'm writing this post from a brand new installation of Windows Vista Ultimate on my Tablet PC. It absolutely rocks. I'm discovering dozens of cool things every minute. Call me a Microsoft shill, but I love it. Still playing with the Tablet PC features, and I need to install Office and Visual Studio yet.

The shocking aspect for me is how fast it is. My Tablet PC, an IBM X41 is fairly old, and only packing an Intel Pentium M 1.5, 1.5GB of RAM, an integrated 915 graphics chip, and a 5400RPM disk drive (the same speed and size as most MP3 players). I'm really really impressed with how snappy the UI is (although it's not AERO because of the integrated graphics) how responsive the disk access is (much faster than with the previous installation of Tablet PC 2005), as well as application loading (several programs I use for work load in about half the time).

The only downside, my Zune software won't install. I was already expecting that based on the various stories going around the internet, but I was somehow hoping that Microsoft had released a patch. Hopefully soon...