Real world 1, Vista 0

I too installed Vista as

I too installed Vista as soon as it was released, one custom built machine and one new HP laptop that I purchased just for vista. The only problem I have had was JMicron RAID controller, and JMicron was kind enough to send me a beta version. My Antivirus Awast! works just fine.

Maybe IT guy should take a few hardware classes. I find the tone of your comments Anti-Microsoft and pro MAC. For a new OS that has not been out for more than a couple of weeks, I have had very few problems. BTW: I have been running Vista on a day-to-day computer for over 3 months now include RC1, RC2 and now the RTM.

Drivers will alwasy be an issue with new OS versions, it is the vendors fault not Microsoft if they are not ready. We started our application conversion back in Augest and stayed current with each new release. I now find it hard to go back to XP.

I have used Linux for the

I have used Linux for the last 2.5 years. Every install on both old computers to new systems have had all the drivers either on the install disk or on the Distro software servers for every piece of equipment that I have used. The reason that Windows seems not to have the problems that are shown in the article is because some one has installed the OS and worked out those bugs. If people had to install their OS, Linux and BSD would quickly become more popular than Microsoft Windows. By the way the Mac OS is also a Unix type OS.

Norton is supposed to be

Norton is supposed to be broken on Vista. Remember all the bitching of the major security companies about how in Vista the kernel is much, much more secure -- even to the point that companies like Norton can't get access to 'fix' it?

If a couple of programs written for XP don't work, and a few drivers haven't been written yet (remember, the consumer version won't be out for another few months), does that really make Macs (for which 99% of software/hardware will inherently never work) that much better?

Of course it doesn't, but there was obviously a strong predilection towards preferring the Mac. The comment about how "Vista was supposed to be a stand-in for the Mac that IT Guy really wants" is all it really takes to understand exactly how fair of a chance it had.

For someone who's been writing about technology for 20 years, you seem completely clueless. But then, I guess it is your husband who's the IT guy and not you.

I don't understand - are you

I don't understand - are you claiming that because software built for Windows XP doesn't work on Vista, Mac is better? I only ask, because every software product for every operating system, including Linux variants and Mac have version dependencies. Software compatability requirements are a vendor issue in the end, would you not agree?

Johanna, I too am an IT guy,

Johanna, I too am an IT guy, working on Novell and Windows for about 20 years now.

This year I bought my very first mac (an Intel iMac) - couldn't be happier. You guys should definitely go get one. I've also messed around with the Vista betas, and it really doesn't compare.

Mind you, I'm not a mac OR pc zealot, and will freely offer that some things work better on Windows and some things work better on the Mac. But overall, the computing experience and just plain fun of using the mac has won me over. This to me is what's most important when I'm home - after being in front of a computer all day at work I'd noticed that I never touched my Windows pc at home, but the mac is a different story.