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German online magazine golem.de wrote a pretty good article (in german) about their experience with Windows Vista RC1. Some interesting bits include 400MB RAM usage after booting and enforcing the separation of software and data files (using virtual folders). Vista also finally fixes the annoying problem with memory-sticks being hidden by network drives, but it's still using the ancient idea of drive letters. So far there are plenty of compatibility issues with existing (not too old) software. I don't even want to know how it behaves if you still have to run some old 16-bit program for whatever odd reason (which sadly seems to be not uncommon in enterprise environments).