I spent most of this last weekend (and eventually into the week) upgrading my house and office to Vista. In total I upgraded 3 servers and a laptop, and synchronised all of my content using one of the best new tools in Vista, robocopy.

It made me realise that doing a manual upgrade to Exchange 2007, Office 2007, or Vista is not for the faint of heart.

My new Lenovo T60 laptop came preloaded with Windows XP. It was great - turn on the power, push the power (aka Easy Button), and an hour later my Vista environment and all of the third party applications I like were configured and installed. I then inserted the Windows Vista DVD, waited two hours, realised the update process wasn't working because wireless isn't automatically configured, plugged it in, and waited another 2 hours for 80MB of drivers to be downloaded from Microsoft.