As Vista approaches you will want to pay attention to previews like this one that give us a sense of the stability, usefulness, and performance of Microsofts latest brainchild.
"Today we'll take a close look at the latest released build from Microsoft
(RC2 build 5744) and give you our thoughts on the OS, from the down right impressive
to the down right dog ugly. We look at installation to tweaking the OS, driver
support, discussing what XP supported programs and games worked in Vista and then
run some benchmarks to compare the performance from XP to Vista in its current state
and with the latest drivers available to us at the moment."