Latency in general is an excruciating side effect of Vista. I'm running it in Parallels on my MacBook Pro and it's really tough to keep from throwing my Mighty Mouse across the room. Load up XP in the same environment and I'm good to go. Starting to wonder why I "upgraded" the thing.
Just to be balanced though (somewhat), the Office 2007 UI is slick. It's nice to use once you get over the learning curve. You'll catch yourself saying, "where the hell is Paste As Special?" for the first week or so though.
_Problem Area 3: Mouse precision
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Windows Vista scored a Mouse Precision Error Coefficient of 0.52, compared with 0.40 for Windows XP, and 0.08 (!) for Mac OS X_
Not even sure how to approach this in a critical way. It reminds me of the sort of made-up, seemingly-mathmatical, but ultimately befuddling stats that you sometimes here in infomercials for copper-wrist band arthritis cures.
The windows mouse pointer seems to work on a pixel-by-pixel basis, when moving slowly. Not sure what kind of precision they are after. And if there was some serious problem, then gamers, who 1) Rely upon precise mouse movements and 2) Have low transition costs, would have moved to Macs a long, long, long time ago.
Just to be balanced though (somewhat), the Office 2007 UI is slick. It's nice to use once you get over the learning curve. You'll catch yourself saying, "where the hell is Paste As Special?" for the first week or so though.