I have been running Vista since the Beta's as well and I have to say Vista Ultimate is AWESOME! I work in the computer field and dont go a day without working on my laptop... the new look to Vista is GREAT! You really need to use it for a while to appreciate everything... Here are some of the "cooler" things I have noticed and really like about Vista:

1.) Now supports HUGE icons.
2.) Icon thumbnails are GREAT... if a folder contains docs or photos, etc the folder shows a couple of items inside it and they actually have previews of the items inside the folder! Really cool!
3.) Instant search ROCKS
4.) Media Center is the best media application I have ever used and works seamlessly with my XBOX 360
5.) The new start menu it truely MUCH MUCH better than the one in XP...
6.) I don't use virus scan anymore! I make it a point not to go to any "bad" sites and don't click on links in emails that offer free stuff, etc... you really DONT need virus scan in Vista if you are careful about where you go.
7.) IE 7... The best browser out there!
8.) Flip 3D
9.) Thumbnails when mousing over the items in the task bar.
10.) It supports EVERY application I ran on my old system
11.) Much better backup
12.) Better mobile decive syncing/setup
12.) much much more!!!

Really if you dont notice the differences and dont think its worth upgrading then you haven't used it enough... it is truly a totally different product than XP... there are lots of people out there who constantly knock Windows for being so "boring" compared to OSX but MS adds the "flair" into Vista and everyone says its not worth the upgrade... if that is the case then XP really isn't that bad compared to OSX...

It's crazy how people will jump out to defend some of these open source projects out there... Apache cannot really be compared to IIS in today's environment. .NET doesn't run on Apache... Period... If you need to be able to develop in ALL the languages available you need IIS. You can run PHP, Perl, etc on IIS... you can't on Apache... maybe that is why the diagram gets a little more confusing for IIS? Just becuase this diagram looks so simple for Apache doesn't mean that the product is in any way better.

IIS is main stream in businesses... fact in point is that there are MANY more Microsoft oriented network admins out there and when you go to put in an applicaiton server at your business you put in what you know your staff can support. Usually that is a Microsoft server and why install Apache on it when it comes with IIS already? Then you have 2 companies to deal with for support.

People need to realize that it isn't always whats best that gets used in this world and being a "fan" of a certain company or product (or most likely cost FREE open source?) doesn't mean that the industry agrees with you. If there was a $$$ amount associated with Apache and Unix they wouldn't be popular products with anyone.

For this article to state: "I don't understand what makes someone choose Microsoft's IIS over the open source Apache and, after seeing this, I don't think I ever will." is just dumb... you use what you can support and what has the features you need (.NET) to run that applications you want to.

OMG!!! Fallout was the BEST RPG EVER MADE!!! I would LOVE to be able to play Fallout 3 in front of my HDTV on my 360! If you could plug the Fallout world into the Obilivion game you would have a winner right away! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE bring Fallout 3 to the 360!!! AND SOON!!!!

Don't get so excited over this phone yet... There isn't anything "new" about it except multitap... EVERY phone out there now plays MP3's and does cellphone stuff at the same time. Having the phone limited to Cingular is just STUPID... That is just a fraction of the market for cellphones. The $600 price tag may seem a little harsh when you might also have to look at moving to Cingular and breaking your contract with your current provider.

Also the lack of 3G is HUGE...

The phone itself is HUGE... it might be thin but the footprint is BIG... the "trendy" 16 year old girls that are going to want a new trendy iPod phone are not going to want to lug around this huge thing...

oh and say what you want about WM5 but Microsoft makes the software not the phones... some of the WM5 based phones out there run GREAT... the software does TONS more than any other mobile OS out there... there is an entire development community writing thousands of apps for Windows Mobile... Apple has a long way to go if they ever want to even compare to WM5. Look at the Treo... Palm will soon be making just phones instead of the Palm OS because more people want WM5 than the Palm OS...

Oh and there was lots of HYPE about the Zune before it was released and I saw news stories about it on my local news... just like the new iPhone... that doesn't mean its going to be great. The people on the news don't know what the difference between EDGE and 3G is they just say "iPhone" and think WOW!

The SideKick already does EVERYTHING the iPhone does but it has a full sized keyboard... EVERY HTC phone out there already does everything the iPhone does and does it better and most of them are smaller and have a real keyboard...

Well see if the iPhone lives up to the hype but just because it is an "i" something doesn't mean its going to be great... the multitap will make or break this phone...

I have gotten the 3 red lights before on my console and had tried turning it on and back off again and it still did the same thing... I was able to remove the hard drive wait for 2-3 minutes and power the system on without the hard connected and that fixed the 3 red lights... then I powered it back off and reconnected the hard drive and the problem went away.

Yeah the iPhone has a limited market in that it is only Cingular and it cost $600... its just like the PS3... who is going to run out and buy their kid a 600 cell phone AND extend their contract 2 years??? The lack of 3G is HUGE... people who are willing to spend that much money on a phone are going to want to do lots of cool data stuff on it and the fact that it outdated already doesn't make any sense.

Also HTC has MUCH better devices out there already... The lack of a real keyboard is HUGE... typing on a small screen with your fingers just doesn't work right... the SideKick is cooler than that phone just because it has a full keyboard... Also... lots of mobile people use their high end phones for business stuff... with no tie in to Exchange server like Windows Mobile has or Blackberry this is going to have problems competing in that market as well.

I'm interested to see what the next generation of Windows Mobile has to offer... if it is "vista"esc it has a good chance to pass right over the iPhone... Since WM is so open and there is already thousands of applications out there for it is is just so much more practical than the iPhone...

I'm sure the iPhone will be the most expensive, coolest looking, most feature lacking phone available.

The WII is really a gimmick... if you can easily release the exact same game (Zelda) on the Game Cube then why did we need a new system in order to use the motion sensing??? I mean really... the controller / wiimote just sends signals about user input to the console... why didn't they just make a wiimote/nunchuck for the Game Cube? Why make people buy the new system if the graphics power are not really a big upgrade? We all know they have made motion sensing controllers before for other systems and the PC and they were always just fads...

It really seems kind of stupid just to make a new way to control games... take Madden for example... the motion of your throw doesn't have much to do with how the ball is thrown... you just click the button for a reciever and do a throwing motion... do we really need stuff like this? Does this really require a NEW NEXT GEN console so we can use a new kind of controller????

That is the big question here...

If you look at the PS3 launch titles like 70% of them are cross platform... even Ridge Racer 7 is kind of cross platform... there would only be one game out for the PS3 right now if it weren't for the 360... developers were working on games like Tiger Woods and Madden, and Ridge Racer BEFORE the 360 was released...

With the 360 developers were taking their first crack at developing NEXT GEN games... with the PS3 many of the developers have already built the next gen engines for the 360 and it is only a matter of porting those engines to the PS3...

Like it or not the 360 started the NEXT GENERATION and when you compare the difficulty of developing games on the 2 platforms you can bet that MOST developers are going to be building the next gen games on the 360 and porting them to the PS3... the tools on the XBOX are just easier to use. Take Assassins Creed for example... I would bet they were building it on the 360 the whole time and porting it to the PS3 along the way... they have had a system to work with in the 360 for the last year and a half (including time with dev kits)...

Unless the PS3 starts selling BIG TIME this trend will continue... why develop a game for the PS3 when you are only going to be able to sell at most 2 million copies by the holiday of next year... and you could potentiall sell the same game on the 360 to more than 10 million people in that same time frame?

Sign me up!

Its seems kind of silly to come out and say that you will never support a format that could win the next gen DVD war... They are just hoping that by saying things like that consumers will be scared into going with Blu-Ray...

Also... where is all the PS3 news!!! This is PS3 Fanboy!!! The system just released last week and there have only been one or two postings since!!!!!!!

COME ONE GUYS!!!!