I was going to wait until next year, but I decided last week to jump in and install Vista on my Toshiba Portege M200 laptop. Now it's time to know how best to use Vista: Windows Vistaâ„¢ Tips & Tricks. I'm going to have some off-time soon. Right now, after the system is stabilized, I need to go and install the M200 drivers to get the optimum experience.

I don't plan on upgrading any of my home machines to Vista: way too much old software and services that I don't expect to be upgraded to Vista. So those guys will happily chug along with XP. What will be interesting is seeing if I get so used to Vista on my work laptop that I really start missing it while using XP.