If you had to justify the upgrade to Vista, how would you sell it to the average person who is happy with Windows XP? I've been using Vista for nearly a year and, from a production perspective, it's still a little unstable running particular 'Vista compatible' applications. Visually it's better than previous operating systems and from a security perspective, more secure. However, an operating system is merely a tool to enable you to run applications to perform your job or enjoy your computer. For this reason, some people are still holding on to XP, at least until Vista SP1 is released.

VistaMizer 1.2.1 is a free customisation pack that will enable you to turn XP in to Vista, at least from a visual theme perspective. You can give it a bit of a visual overhaul, before you finally upgrade to Vista. This is based around an installer that will update many elements of XP and not just the basic theme.

19 Oct 2007