After three weeks using the Beta 1 of Windows Vista these are my impressions:
- The installation delays enough
- It has got few utilities (miss shortcuts to Defrag, WordPad, ect.)
- It hasn´t SideBar
- It has only one desktop theme
- Include .NET 1.0 but not include .NET 1.1
- It hasn´t WinFx (Indigo and Avalon)
- It´s very stable (only one blue screen)
- All drivers for XP of my notebook works well
- Multiple users even if the machine joins to a domain (I love this feature!)
- IE7 and integrate desktop search works very well
Definitive, this version of Windows Vista is like to XP + a new theme + FireFox + Google Desktop. I hope it improves in the next versions.