Seems I’m not the only one not liking the new Microsoft stuff, Vista and Office 2007. Joel Spolsky notes that it already starts with opening the wrapping, and gets worse from there:
I’ve tested Office 2007 extensively, and find it a tolerable replacement for the previous version, although it’s extremely frustrating every time I have to spend several minutes finding something that I knew exactly how to find in the previous version. Even though there’s no reason to upgrade to Office 2007, if you’re setting up a new system, it’s just as good as the previous version, even a little better in some places. But Vista is another story.
I’ve been using Vista on my home laptop since it shipped, and can say with some conviction that nobody should be using it as their primary operating system — it simply has no redeeming merits to overcome the compatibility headaches it causes. Whenever anyone asks, my advice is to stay with Windows XP (and to purchase new systems with XP preinstalled).
So there you have it. Stick with what you know, and save yourself a lot of grief, and time, and money.