Hello from Vista
I've just finished installing Vista, and the first app I installed was Windows Live Writer. So far so good - the only device I've noticed I don't have a driver installed for is my sound card, and Vista has given my computer a 4.4 "Experience Index".
Some trivia:
- It took 25 minutes from booting the setup DVD to the Vista desktop.
- The Windows directory contains 7.08gb of data in 6624 folders, 37568 files.
- The Program Files directory contains 505mb of data in 218 folders, 1583 files.
- With nothing else running, the system is using 15426 handles, 657 threads, 49 processes.
- With nothing but Live Writer running, of my 2gb RAM, 1073mb is "cached", and 537mb is free.
- It still requires a reboot to join a domain.
- Vista installs .NET framework 2.0, and the 3.0 components (WCF, WPF, WWF). Directories are created for 1.0 and 1.1, but those versions of the framework are not installed.
- This was the first version of Windows that had my default time zone right. Every other version assumed I was in Pacific.
Next stop: Installing Office 2007.