A couple quick lessons on Vista

I just upgraded my tablet XP to Vista Ultimate and am generally impressed.  Just as happened with Win 3.X to Win 9X to 2000 to XP, I'm still finding my way around.  Since I did something that I rarely recommend people do (i.e., upgrade instead of fresh install), I wanted to share a quick lesson about paying attention to compatibility.  I uninstalled a few key applications and drivers based on the Vista advisor's recommendation.  But I chose to ignore warnings on others.  All of the critical portions of the system are functional but I do have one gotcha...

There are a few applications that aren't supported on Vista; they don't work and...  I can't uninstall them.  When the installation package opens so that I can perform the uninstall it proclaims that the O/S isn't supported and ceases to function.  I'm sure there is an easy work-around and I'll post a follow-up when I figure it out. 

Also, if you're using much Virtual PC, like I do, you'll want to uninstall VPC 2004 and install VPC 2007 Beta (available from Microsoft Connect).  Obviously it's beta so you'll want to approach it as such, but it is at least going to be supported on Vista.

Enjoy Vista and Office 2007!