After a little more than a year of OS X as my primary, I'm going to give Vista a go. I'm still on my first generation MacBook Pro but rather than firing up Vista occasionally in Parallels, I'm shifting over to the Vista partition as my default boot. I'm finally able to make the move because Apple's Boot Camp driver package has gotten good enough with version 1.4.
The really cool thing was that I was able to just copy my Firefox and Thunderbird profiles over using Parallels and then boot into Vista and I've got 90% of my standard environment ready to go. Not only did I carry over my email and bookmarks, but extensions moved over seamlessly as well. I love our cross-platform programs :-)
So, I'm back to my trusty text editor, UltraEdit and my favorite IRC client, mIRC. I've still got to figure out what I'm going to do for IM to replace the amazing Adium program. I suspect I'll end up with Pidgin, the current iteration of gAIM.
Depending on how it goes, I'll be back here sooner or later with a report on what I love and hate about Vista. Stay tuned.
