Mossberg's take on Vista

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Vista: Worthy, Largely Unexciting - WSJ.com (By WALTER S. MOSSBERG)

After months of testing Vista on multiple computers, new and old, I believe it is the best version of Windows that Microsoft has produced. However, while navigation has been improved, Vista isn't a breakthrough in ease of use. Overall, it works pretty much the same way as Windows XP. Windows hasn't been given nearly as radical an overhaul as Microsoft just applied to its other big product, Office.

Nearly all of the major, visible new features in Vista are already available in Apple's operating system, called Mac OS X, which came out in 2001 and received its last major upgrade in 2005. And Apple is about to leap ahead again with a new version of OS X, called Leopard, due this spring.

In other words, it's the best Windows yet, but that's not saying much. Especially when you consider that many of the features of MacOS X came from the Unix of a decade ago.