Vista impressions
Overall, I like it. It’s nowhere near the revolutionary leap that Microsoft promised when it was originally annonced, as many features have been cut, but it is a move in the right direction.
Much to my surprise, Outlook Express has been overhauled and it quite nice. The IMAP support is much better than before, and is quite possibly better than in Outlook. I find, however, that the more I use it, the more it slows down and occasionally crashes. Granted, I’ve got a massive IMAP account (almost 1gb), but it seems to do this even when it’s not working with a really big folder.
The 3D interface is slick-looking, but once you use it for a while, you don’t think about it. It pretty much feels like a slick version of Windows XP.