Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 8th May 2007 13:19 UTC
Months go, I reviewed Windows Vista, and concluded: "All in all, I am impressed by Windows Vista [...]. Windows Vista is better than XP, and definitely more than just an improved look as many say." After 5 months of usage, it is time to put that statement into perspective.
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2007-01-20
Where downloads are stored by default can be changed and is a feature of the browser, not the OS. So that's easy to fix, even if it's a mess by default.
And as for the antivirus thing stealing focus, that's a poorly-written app (like most). There have been discussions regarding whether a window manager should even allow that, but it often comes down to a couple of annoying apps that should stay in the backgroound and don't. For that reason alone you might want to consider a more well-behaved antivirus/antispyware suite (or a more limited access account on the machine to preclude the need for it; that works for my parents for the most part, and they're power users among their age group).
As for organizing files... well, even the best of us get lost in our own directory stacks now and then, and it takes concerted effort to keep it organized. Maybe the OSX- and Vista-style searching (often denoted by the Mac name "Spotlight") makes that simpler. There are utilities to recreate that in XP and on Unix-like systems. Hope that helps.