It's been a very interesting week following along with Pete Wright as he has put Windows Vista through its paces on his Tablet PC. Due to some travel and speaking obligations, he's wrapping up his Vista trial and reinstalling Windows XP (very smart - giving a public presentation with a beta OS is daredevil territory). But Pete has gotten me even more excited about Vista's potential by sharing his experiences in such great detail and with such candid honesty about the good and the bad. Here's his summary:

"But, I love it to bits. I really do. I had scoffed at the suggestion that this is the next version of Windows for the next ten years, but now I can quite see it. I love the UI. I love the tight integration of the apps (mail, calendar, contacts, journal, ie etc etc) into the OS. I love Defender and it's somewhat overzealous attempts to guard me when I try to do anything. I love that i can hibernate and restore from hibernate in lightning speeds compared to XP or it's forebears. I love the Tablet support most of all, with the gorgeous new TIP, and the beautiful click feedback animations.

I love Vista. Once I have these presentations out of the way, it's definitely going back on as my primary Tablet OS."

Thanks Pete.