Originally Posted by murphy
...That said, I'm not putting off buying until Vista. I've already
got most of its features.

26 hours, 32 minutes: about 24 1/2 hours longer than I thought it would take!
Murphy has a point, though. You can usually get a good idea of what the next release of Windows will look like by checking out whatever Mac OS looked like when they wrote its specs. You don't have to be a Mac bigot, or to deny the many infrastructure-related reasons to use Windows, to see this.