So here I am in the bath tub typing on my Pocket PC phone, and giving you my impressions of windows vista.

I installed Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit edition on my acer laptop last night. I have to say while Vista does have some good improvements, it us Ultra finicky.

For starters none of it' default drivers will recognize my sound card. Windows update finds it but I seem to be having issues getting it to install the updates it down loads. Since I have yet to get the updated video driver working it keeps saying I don't have 3D acceleration so I can't even see the pretty new effects.

On the plus side it is pretty easy to use thought I preferred cascading menus to this weird file tree thing it has going on.

The sidebar gadgets are cute, but basically useless. They include a lot of toys from windows for workgroups 3.1 So I can't even pretend they are new. I mean these are features they decided were of no use 12 years ago when Win95 came out. I do however like that the sticky notes are back.

I will get back to you later with more when I figure out if running in 64 bit mode really is faster, like it should be.