Over the past few months I have written about my experiences with Vista, and the problems associated with it.  I first installed it several months ago and promptly removed it due to incompatibilities with printers, my network, Photoshop, and a few other things.  I ended up dual-booting with XP, and had my second machine running XP also all working seamlessly with Multiplicity. 

Now since then I found myself booting into Vista more and more, mostly because of Vista related work.  I personally don't like dual-boot setups, and having XP on my second machine made dual-booting kind of useless, so I made the decision to put Vista back on my main machine full-time.  Before making the jump again I made an image of XP so I could restore it right back if needed, and also made backups of all my data.

So after a quick format and installation, I updated all my drivers, installed my applications, and restored my data.  To my surprise many of the problems I had before were solved.  Dell updated their printer drivers to support Vista, so the biggest problem of me using Vista previously is gone.  The biggest surprise of all was Photoshop CS2 worked, and worked very well.  I recently wrote about my troubles with Photoshop and was looking for recommendations for new graphics software, but for whatever reason, CS2 works fine now.

So it's been about two weeks of running Vista full-time, and I am happy to say I haven't had any major problems.  All my applications are working, and I have finished all my projects without any hassles.  I was very hesitant about this switch, but overall I'm happy with the way it has turned out.  I still have XP on my desktop for any XP related needs, but I'm looking forward to all the cool things upcoming for Vista.