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« on: May 08, 2007, 02:52 PM »
In general, I like XP, but I think that's mostly because I've had it for so long and messed around with it so much that I'm pretty familiar with it. Despite my fiancé muttering about bit rot and installing every darn piece of crappy freeware (DC excluded, of course) and wierd Firefox extension that takes my fancy, I'm only recently starting to wonder about reformatting and reinstalling (for the first time!).
That being said, all the previews of Vista that I've seen make it look like it would irritate the heck out of me, and I think I'm going with Linux for the next computer I buy. No idea what flavor yet, but it's going to be at least a year or two barring major catastrophe. There's also the political and personal distaste for big closed corporate overlords, plus the fact that I can run just as many bells and whistles on a totally free distribution of Linux as I can on Vista, and the advantages start to fade.
The only thing is Word 2003--I have a serious love/hate relationship with it. On the one hand, it makes me angry almost every day. It has so many irritating problems! On the other, I have figured out how to customize it to within an inch of its life, and I find it really awkward to use other programs or default settings on other machines.
Has anyone tried the new Office? I really don't like the way the toolbars looked in screenshots, so I haven't even given it a second look.