I installed Vista on my laptop last week along with Office 2007.  My first impression was that it looked great.  Esthetics are something that is often missed, especially by Microsoft.  Vista does a good job to correct that.  My only problem is that's pretty much where the good news stops. 

I haven't seen anything else that made me think, wow, that's cool.  I was able to disable all the annoying “are you sure” dialogs.  Someone riddle me this.  If I double click on an executable, do you really have to ask me if I'm sure I want to execute it?  Why are we protecting the idiots?  It's just like a warning label on a toaster saying don't use in the bathtub.  Besides that, do you think making users click Ok again will make it any safer?  Every stupid person I know will just click Ok again.  I just don't see the point.

Now most of my complaints can be explained by it being a beta.  Everything seems pretty slow.  I had some problems installing a few pieces of software (seemingly because of locked down security).  I had some issues connecting to my wireless network when I don't broadcast the SSID. I had lots of problems shutting down.  It seems to hang most of the time when I shut down.  I have to hold the power button to kill it. Items in my widget bar would appear and disappear randomly (especially clocks).

So really, most of my big problems can be explained by the beta label.  The one that can't is my desire to see something fresh, some feature that makes me *want* to upgrade.  Ok, it looks great, but is there any way to innovate in the OS space anymore?  It seems Vista will be a fine OS, but nothing to hype from what I can see.