[dd74]

I downloaded an evaluation copy of Longhorn just see what's what. Functionally, it's really not that bad.

Visually, at least on the desktop, it's much different than XP. A big ol' clock plants itself in the upper right hand corner of the screen. I think it's cool instead of that little digital readout on the lower right.

I actually like Longhorn (which, I guess, will be called Vista). It recognized nearly everything of importance to me on my IBM R40 Thinkpad. So I basically didn't need to download any drivers from IBM. The OS is a little slow, but this is still beta.

Overall, not bad...