I have encountered a bug in Vista several times which seems like such a wonderful demonstration of why Vista should not pretend to be good at search. When you're browsing to a file using an Open File dialog, there is a search box in the upper right. Thinking, "Oh, cool, I guess I can just type wordpad there instead of finding it by browsing" when I needed to open a text file in !notepad, I typed in wordpad. Vista proceeded to display search results, including WordPad, but they were not clickable, and I could no longer do anything to get rid of the modal window, except kill the application. Don't include a search option if you're not going to support it!
On a positive note, I figured out that if I close Firefox on the OS X side, Vista (using Parallels) is much speedier, probably because they are both memory hogs. And then I can use Firefox within Vista, and my system is really only slowed down by one monstrosity and not two. (Ok, I shouldn't call Firefox a monstrosity... but it could use some better memory management!)
I wish my job didn't require Windows (or at least highly prefer it). Or I wish I hadn't installed Vista, thinking it'd be cool to try something new. Right now, it's complaining at me that I don't have enough harddrive space to install Service Pack 1. I don't want to continue to let Vista eat away at my hard drive, it's already claimed 15GB of 120, and keeps insisting on more. I think I heard bad things about SP1 anyway...
I might get a chance to work on open source software this summer. That would be a great experience in light of my current sentiments of slight negativity toward massive corporations (more negative toward some than others, and it varies a lot over time, too). We shall see!
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