I’ve been upgrading to Windows Vista and Office 2007 over the past 24 hours. The upgrade itself went fairly well.

I checked compatibility beforehand, removed programs that were in conflict, plus some others likely to cause problems, and ran the Windows upgrade first. The following problems were encountered:

• I have a dual monitor setup. The upgrade messed up the monitor order.
• Internet Explorer does not work – at all. It won’t even start. Luckily I use Firefox. If I didn’t have Firefox my ability to do anything on the Internet would be at a standstill.

The upgrade took quite a while to accomplish. The Vista interface is pleasant albeit a little slow.

I pretty much agree with Julio Ojeda-Zapata’s article Vista’s pretty, but it’s a shameless Mac OS X imitator from the St. Paul Pioneer Press. I look forward to updating our Macs to Leopard.