I know Windoze Suck..but..

[DonnyEMU]

I am using Vista RTM (thank you MSDN) x64 and loving it, every moment of it.. I am a fan of xaml, the quality of this windows seems crash free and the resource monitoring is great.. The point is you can't really see what the value of vista is until you can start seeing what these new applications can do and how they improve the user experience (very like original Amiga applications pre-2.0).

-Don

PS Windoze may suck but Microsoft Windows Vista does not, it's the best thing since the Amiga.. Plus I don't really have to worry that much about viruses and spyware anymore.

Also when you really want to see what vista/.net 3.0 gives you I'd check out the following resources..

The WPFBlog by a Frog Design Employee who also blogs about Flash  (http://www.thewpfblog.com/)

DENOUNCE
Podcast Listener and Blog Reader
http://www.thirteen23.com/work/denounce/index.html

Harmony
Visualize your music library in3d.
http://www.thirteen23.com/labs/winfx/harmony/index.html

NOSTALGIA
Yahoo! Flickr Browser and Photo Manager
http://www.thirteen23.com/work/nostalgia/index.html

CINE.VIEW
Netflix Manager with 3d graphics for your desktop
http://www.thirteen23.com/work/cine.view/index.html

You also only have to look at this woodgroove app demo to see how useful this presentation technology is inside of Windows..

http://scorbs.com/2006/06/16/woodgrove-demo/