I'm sure you all know I'm a shameless Microsoft fanboy (yeah, right), but Vista has been disappointing. I've been running Ultimate since release and I've had my share of performance issues. I'm also surprised as to how slow things are, as you mentioned here (the UAC pop-ups and applications in general).

I'm really surprised that Vista was released as it was. SP1 is long overdue. Hell, it took them until last week to get DreamScenes running.

I can't wait!