After the success of my Office 2007 upgrade, I had been itching to upgrade to Vista.

Vista has an Upgrade Advisor Tool and it is well recommended. The Upgrade Advisor told me my system would be able to run Vista. It did point out a couple of issues, one of which stopped me from installing right away.

The computer I wanted to install Vista on has two physical drives, a C: drive with 15GB total space, and an E: drive with 250GB total space. The Upgrade Advisor said I did not have enough space on my C: Drive to run Vista. That worried me, because what was I going to do?

The other issue UA warned me about was that my video card did not support Aero Glass. I was disappointed.

Those two issues stopped me from installing Vista for a little bit, but one night I was listening to the Windows Weekly Podcast with Paul Thurrott. This Podcast had me so excited to try Vista that I said I would install it anyways, Upgrade Advisor be damned.

Now during the actual install, I thought I had the disk space problem licked. Vista asked me which drive I wanted to install it to, and I picked E:. Whooo!

Except, during the install, Vista started filling up my remaining free space on C:. It uses C: as its temp drive! Argh! Basically, I needed 5-6GB free space on C: just to install on E:. Good thing I had some free space.

After the install was done, Vista was looking great. I updated a few drivers, including my audio and video drivers to the latest version. And swapped in a newer video card I had from another computer, so now I can run Aero.

Basically, Vista is a prettier Operating System. I can see how the Mac-zealots say that Microsoft copied the look from OSX, although somehow I like Vista and not OSX. Microsoft has done it right, and the pretty graphics grew on me.

There's not much reason to upgrade except for the prettier UI. XP was pretty good, but Vista is a bit better.