My previous post could have been interpreted as me bashing Vista. Let me make this clear: I like Vista a lot, much more than XP. It is especially nice with Service Pack 1, but was fine even before.
In moving to Vista, Microsoft obviously tried to sometimes hide features used by power users (which is fine by me). However, they sometimes got it wrong, and it is not always obvious to tell where things are.
This was already the case for a few things in XP; well, in Vista this is sometimes better, sometimes worse. The UI inconsistencies (remnants from Windows 95 and XP, mixed with the new UI that Vista introduced) certainly do not help.
Instead of making some of the powerful and useful features of the system easily discoverable, they just get relegated to some tab in a dialog (yes, I am again thinking of Previous Versions).
It turns out that if you look at it a bit too quickly, Vista just seems to be XP with a more modern theme and too high requirements to warrant installing.
Could this be one of the reasons it gets such bad press?
Get ready: a few forthcoming posts will try to show you some nice features of Vista.
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