Move your cursor to where you want to start typing. Start typing. Notice the cursor doesn’t disappear and will actually get in your way visually. Like your mom walking in front of the pre-Tivo TV, right when the good part is happening. Mom! Get out of the way! Down in front!
The cursor should never get in your way. This frequently leads to me slapping the mouse to just move the cursor out of my way as I’m typing. In fact I do this all day long. I could argue that this is worsening any repetitive stress on my wrists. Windows is actually physically damaging me here.
BTW, The Mac OS X does, in fact, get this right.
Mike, are you trying to tell us that you’re going to go back to being a Mac user? Come back
Huh? Wha? Whatever do you mean?
I swear this is new with Vista. I know when I used to start typing the cursor would, like a good butler, obediently make itself scarce. But now it hangs around annoying you and getting in your face… kind of like Ashton Kutcher.