We took delivery of a brand new, shiny Dell preloaded with Vista today and I set about setting it up as a pairing station. Sadly, in the first 30 minutes I’d crashed Vista to the point of having to hard reset the entire machine.

Finding anything in the control panels is a nightmare, not just because it’s impossible to guess where things will be, but because it takes so many more clicks to get there now. Worse still, when you finally do get there, you wind up looking at the old XP dialog. What’s the point of all the fancy graphics and categorization if when it comes down to it I’m still confronted by an ugly, confusing dialog with a million tabs and settings coming out it’s ears?

Oh and I finally have a true understanding of the Apple “cancel or allow” ad. Damn that dialog is annoying – and so frequent.