InfoWorld's Oliver Rist is underwhelmed by Vista:

Instead, I now have a much slicker-looking version of Windows XP ¦ along with significantly increased hardware requirements. I don't mind the 1GB of RAM baseline so much. But the need for a 3D-accelerator in any PC that wants to run Aero sticks in my craw. Executives will start out seeing reason, but soon enough they'll want Aero running everywhere. That means fancy-shmancy video cards. And fancy-shmancy video cards mean added complexity, and that means more trouble for the desktop admin set -- all for something that really amounts to glitz and little else.

I'm starting to think that Vista is astonishingly like Sony's PS3: it's an incremental improvement over the previous generation, but it's being pitched as a huge change. The big price tag for fairly small benefits is not a great marketing campaign, IMHO.

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