I've been running Vista at the office since Beta 2. And although I ran it on my old mule of a laptop at home, it didn't quite have enough to enable Aero...I actually wish I had a screen shot of the 1.0 graphics score it got. While graphics are still a liability on my laptop...(I probably won't be playing Halo 2 on it), it did manage to get a 3.0. Everything else was in the high 4's. Now that I have a personal machine that can do everything Vista is capable of, I've had a few wow moments. Like when I did the win+tab switching while a video was playing in IE...(a Silverlight video no less) and it was streaming seamlessly in the preview mode. Or when I hovered over the task bar and saw the same thing. The screen shot Doesn't do it justice...but if you've seen it in action, you know what I'm talking about. Before Vista was released, there were a lot of questions about just what advantage the DWM (Desktop Window Manager) would bring over User and GDI. There were even comparisons between the Read More...