I bought a new laptop and just finished installing Windows Vista’s Ultimate edition on it. Vista was released for MSDN users a week ago and it seems that it will be available to general public in February 2007.

It is good to know that NetBeans IDE seems to work with Vista without any problems whereas Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2005 isn’t yet officially supported.

New version of Windows feels quite nice for the first few hours and after that it feels like Windows XP with some additional eye candy. I don’t see any significant innovations in the user interface or functionality but maybe it is a good thing as I didn’t feel that XP would have been poor to use. I would have still expected a bit more progress in seven years, but maybe Microsoft have became a too giant dinosaur that isn’t able to move as agile as smaller companies. I keep reading the Joel Spolsky’s Joel on Software blog and he have written good posts on this subject.

Next time I’ll buy MacBook Pro.