First and foremost, I have lived and breathed daily in all the versions of Microsoft Windows since Windows 3.1.  Secondly, I am a developer that loves and uses Microsoft technologies to pay my mortgage every month.  I develop in Windows and for Windows and make a pretty decent living doing so.

That being said, Microsoft has got to get it's act together and get it together quickly.  I am soooo fed up with Microsoft Windows Vista.  I am fed up with it's stability, it's "features", and it's "user interface".

I bought a MacBook for my wife about a year and a half ago.  I bought it for her because they have a reputation of being a lot more user friendly than a PC and she is not the most computer literate.  Her experience with the Mac has been less than stellar mostly due to the incompatabilities with other equipment such as printers, etc and the Office for Mac (another Microsoft program) suite.  I on the other hand have grown to love the little things.  I am going to contrast the little things that the Mac does well below with my issues on the "revolutionary" Vista PC.

I am sick and tired of...

• Waiting for the damn PC to sleep.  I click on sleep and wait, and wait, and wait and finally after 30 seconds, the damn PC is sleeping and using less battery.  On the Mac, just close the lid and right away you are saving battery
• Waiting for the damn PC to wake up.  Same deal as sleep.  It takes a minute for all the drivers to get themselves back to a good state (if that happens at all).  On a Mac, it just works right when you open the lid
• Docking/Undocking.  In Windows, this has always been a toss up.  Will my display work?  Will my network connections work?  You have to wait and see.  Kinda fun except when you get to the meeting and have to reboot because undocking/docking must be a problem that Microsoft just can't figure out.  Maybe Microsoft Research should stop playing with coffee tables and work on this issue.  Macs do not have docking stations so maybe they can't figure it out either.
• Drivers. I know that this is not a Microsoft issue, accourding to them but dammit, I disagree.  It is part of the Windows experience and it reflects badly on them.  Drivers need to be more stable and they need to work really, really well all the time.  They should help OEMs make these and test these.  Macs definately are ahead here because they control the hardware and the software.  Looking back, not such a bad idea Bill?
• Deleting a damn file.  WTF takes so long?  Mark the file as deleted in Windows, flip a bit for f*** sakes.  In Mac world, Move to Trash takes 1 second and you no longer see the file and hear the little wringled paper sound no matter how many files/folders you move there.
• Folders.  I love the fact that my default documents folder is in C:\XXXX\XXXX\XXXXXX\XXXX\XXXXX.  This makes my mom, sister, next door neighbor, and babysitter all call me and go where the hell is my file.  On a Mac, there is a Documents folder and an Applications.  Simple.

I am sick of these little things bug me on a daily basis.  It cuts into my productivity more often than not.  This would be a simple fix for me if I did not love the tablet form factor. 

I could just get my own MacBook and use Parallels and Boot Camp for my developing within the Microsoft stack.  The problem is that I would loose the tablet form factor and I am not willing to give that up yet.  The tablet allows me to do a lot of different things than just using the keyboard.  Ink allows me to think in a different way, take electronic notes for clients, etc.

So my hope is that the ModBook is not yet vaporware.  This things needs to come out soon so that I can have a MacBook that is a tablet.  It is supposed to be released in the 4th quarter of this year.  The problem is that it has been pushed back 3 times now.  Will this thing ever be released?  I am praying and checking the site everyday and I have one on pre-order.  Will this solve my issues or create more?  I will have to get one before I can answer that.  There are a million questions I have for this device.  I will surely blog about them if I can ever get my hands on one.