Blather From Mike (feel free to skip)
As much as I try not to be, I'm still bitter about my Vista Experience. You see, in my mind, I'd be full-blown running Vista right now. But it sadly just didn't work out.

I figured out why VMware Workstation would take my license information (that, sadly, was my fault (a short-circuit between the chair and keyboard as they say)), but once I got it started (while killing time at the airport), I couldn't launch any of my Virtual Machines due to permissions errors on my External USB drive. In other words, I wasn't able to write to files on my external drive. I'm sure I could have gone in and changed permissions, but I was already running as an 'adminstrator' - so I left in disgust. That, and it appears that MICROSOFT's Virtual PC simply won't run on Vista.

Trainwreck Roundup
So, I've been keeping tabs on a few Vista related tidbits in the news over the past few days. Here's a roundup:

Vista is still a mess. Say what you want about the inquirer, but the details they lay out with their Vista troubles are very disheartening.

MS Changes the Meaning of Release Candidate. Interesting perspective on how RC1 really should be a Beta 3, and how MS knows it. (This is a bit of a meme making its way around in some circles.)

Hanselman's Diary of an RC1 upgrade. Scott's an optimistic guy. So optimistic that he opted for an upgrade rather than an FDISK/bare-bones install of Vista. Looks like it took forever, and was fraught with some difficulty. Happily he's terribly computer literate/savy and was able to fix0r all of the issues he encountered. Still, reading about his experience leaves me with the conclusion that a) Vista RC1 sure isn't a true Release Candidate and b) non-nerds simply won't tolerate all of the BS in this new operating system - assuming they can even find all of the needed drivers and get things running correctly.