I'm running Windows 2008 on my Fujitsu S7220, using it to test various blog and CMS solutions, and it's a great OS. As much as I love XP, I'm really impressed with a lot of the UI improvements that went into Vista (which flowed into 2008 and is improved even more in Windows 7). I don't hear a ton of talk about it, and I get the feeling that a lot of people who grumble about Vista (Becky!) just haven't taken the time to learn their new surroundings. One thing I didn't realize I use all the time was the searchable start menu. No more sorting your start menu to make things easier to find-it's a built-in quick launch that doesn't suck. Luckily, for people running XP, there's hope. LifeHacker featured a download called ViStart (clever…), which gives XP users the useful bits without needing to upgrade. I'm going to slipstream this onto my next XP image-that's still 90% of all the installations I do at work. Most of the Vista-on-XP programs out there are kinda hokey and just for show, but this one brings some really useful functionality back to the most widely used desktop OS.
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Thursday, February 26, 2009