Experience of using Windows Vista after six years of Linuxing

Some time ago I found that I'm not comfortable with 15″ laptop and decided that time has come to buy something new, nice and tiny. I have chosen Acer Aspire 3810T it's display is 13" and LED-backlit, 4GB of RAM, CPU enough for browsing the Web and running old games.. decent battery life. It comes with Windows Vista Home Premium. Ok, I've heard a lot of negative feedback about it but I wanted to give it a try.

So, everything was going pretty OK, no problems browsing the Web, chatting, puttying, etc. So I'm using Windows for one month. Installed few programs, OpenOffice, Firefox, Skype, Machinarium(really enjoyed the game :)). And a lot of software come preinstalled(shitty games, trial version of Microsoft Office 2007, antivirus, backup managers, etc).

Yesterday I decided to uninstall everything I'm not using. So, what I've discovered:

• Different software still uses different installers;
• Some uninstallers didn't remove links from Start Menu(system-wide as well);
• During deinstallation of MyWinLocker window has appeared saying three programs were still running that should be closed for deinstallation to continue and one of them was an Explorer. I gave it a try, and it has killed Explorer, and left me with empty screen after deinstallation has finished. I could try to logout through Ctrl+Alt+Del.. but.. what if I were an ordinary computer noob? I would panic;
• In some uninstallers progressbar has been restarting a lot of times without any change of action description message... it was just saying something like "uninstallation will finish in 0 seconds". It's confusing.

To sum everything - I'm not satisfied.. Exactly the same problems were there back in 2003, and 2000, and earlier. Microsoft did nothing to solve them. And these problems come just from uninstalling software. I didn't try any other scenario.. And I don't want to even try..

I know Windows 7 was released yesterday, and it gets only positive responses. I'm going to order and try it (Acer has a program to get free upgrade to Windows 7(but it still costs $20 for shipping(:D Canonical ships free discs of free OS, and Microsoft(maybe it's Acer's decision) want customer to pay for shipping.. :D Not to say that it would be better to just download the image of CD without wasting CDs(or DVDs)))). So, when I upgrade to Windows 7 I'll install some Linux for everyday use (don't want to mess with GRUB overwritten by Windows upgrade)