And they say computers aren't sentient ... It was time to move into a new laptop. This meant deciding between Vista and XP, and between staying with Office 2003 or moving on to 2007. I'm well past the stage when new versions of software are exciting. Mostly they're aggravating, hiding the same old familiar capabilities behind a new set of buttons, menu trees and so on. And of course, there's all the data to move And they say computers aren’t sentient …It was time to move into a new laptop. This meant deciding between Vista and XP, and between staying with Office 2003 or moving on to 2007.I’m well past the stage when new versions of software are exciting. Mostly they’re aggravating, hiding the same old familiar capabilities behind a new set of buttons, menu trees and so on. And of course, there’s all the data to move besides. And then there’s that sentience thing. My old Sony Viao noticed that I’d bought a new system and chose that exact moment to become unbootable. It wasn’t a hardware failure, either, because I could get it to boot into safe mode and the “last version that worked” mode.But it wouldn’t restore to any of the many checkpoints I’d set.And, of course, taxes are due, only now, before I can install TurboTax, I have to get something working and stable. So for awhile, instead of the normal format, I’ll also intermittently intersperse various expressions of aggravation or admiration.First, aggravation: Zone Labs, which sells my preferred firewall, antivirus, antispyware and anti-spam suite, appears to have been caught off-guard by Vista. Didn’t see it coming, I guess, because its Vista solution is still in beta.More aggravation: Microsoft still hasn’t fixed all-day appointments in Outlook. In Outlook 2007, as with its predecessors, once you change time zones Independence Day will occur in part on either July 3rd or July 5th. Maybe I’m just crabby. And I probably shouldn’t be. Vista provides decent tools for migrating from an older system, including the ability to import application configurations. The Viao system recovery utility, while scary, seems to be doing a decent job as well.And I did have all of my data backed up.Nonetheless, I have a question, both for Zone Labs and for the Outlook team: WHAT WERE YOU PEOPLE THINKING?!?!?! – Bob Technology Industry