I was surprised to hear that you have yet to receive any feedback form a reader who actually liked Vista. So, here I am. Like yourself, I have heard nothing but complaints about Vista since it appeared on the horizon. I, however, must be the only one who did not have a major problem with it and I am writing to say that I actually liked using Vista. I liked the audio architecture. I thought it was great that I could independently control the applications that were using the sound card. I could now listen to music and not have the sound of another program interrupt an audio, or video, track. I also enjoyed the new buttons used in Office 2007. I really like how I can attach keywords to files and this has greatly helped organize my picture collection. I also found it much faster to use the windows key, type the name of the application, or file, that I was looking for and it immediately appeared. I did not have to dig around my programs list or documents and I found that I became more efficient in my work.

At first it took some time to get used to the changes, but so did my experience with Linux, Mac OS, Windows, etc. Like some users, I was frustrated at some of the new interfaces but learned to work with the new OS. I feel that too many times the complains are solely based on "Well its just not the same" and I do not feel that this is a valid complaint. My 2006 Saturn Ion has the instrument panel in the middle of the console. So what? I also hear many complaints where the user has never even used Vista but was simply regurgitating information they came across. I have since converted my parents, who are not computer savvy, into using Vista.

I do not disagree that Vista does have some problems, but I feel the same about a lot of operating system that I deal with on a daily basis. I just wanted to drop you a line and say that I feel that Vista is "not that bad".