Bye Bye Vista, Welcome back XP - A few comments...

I finally found enough free time to get my new hard drive installed and reinstall Windows XP. Overall, I'm happy to be back to XP. My data restore was perfect, so no complaints there. Although there's not a whole lot I miss from Vista, the 2 things I miss are:

• Windows sidebar (I like a few of the widgets)
• Improved networking - The TCP/IP stack was rewritten for Vista. That being the case, I noticed that the wireless networking performed very well. I'm a little disappointed with the performance of my wireless NIC in XP.

Other than that, I do almost everything else in Firefox, Logos Bible Software, and Word. Those programs function the same in Vista or XP. I'm not opposed to going to Vista again some day, but I'd want to do it on a new machine that has beefier hardware. Who knows, maybe by that time I'll want to buy a MAC.