Rowan wrote:
I disabled it after I had a play. It's not as though there's anything wrong with Vista's sidebar, I just can't see any reason to use it.


Well yeah, but I found that if I use t like in OS X it is pretty usefull. It is not always there, it is distracting you and whenever you want to see something (calendr, stock, weather) I just press F8 and voila!