Microsoft's Vista sales power up

BBC NEWS | Business | Microsoft's Vista sales power up: "Microsoft has sold nearly 40 million copies of Vista, its new operating system replacing Windows XP."

I am not surprised it's starting to take off. Vista is cruisier than XP and XP is pretty cruisy. I got Vista with my new lap top and as I blogged, when I first used it I found it to be a real control freak. I have since worked out it is trying to stop you doing dumb things and it is stopping people from interfering with your computer. If you are aware of this, the feature can be really annoying to triple and double check actions and then find you cannot do something. There are work arounds and I confess now I'm into my third week I actually quite like Vista. I had to change to the classic interface as I said but it is more grown up and adult in its approach than XP. My only shock was when I turned on my laptop last weekend and it told me my copy was illegal. I could have blown a gasket but I realised Windows would get me to the right thing to do eventually. It has a weird assortment of oddball messages as Windows always does but what I had to do was ring and get it registered. Pity that didn't happen at the time I was setting the laptop up. It came 2 weeks later and so I'd forgotten about the phone registration. I actually find that annoying and ridiculous, but who am I to be listened to? I have no objection to online registration. Having passed that obstacle I have been quite happily puttering away with Vista and find the way it operates quite helpful. Patience is always a virtue with Windows. Sometimes you think it's out to get you but it just has a weird way of trying to be helpful. I have had absouely no problems at all with any software I have loaded and all peripherals have settled in quickly. I set my desktop up really quickly too. No, as yet, I have nothing to complain about and think it is a better than XP and runs media stuff well.