My place of employement is starting to roll out Lotus Notes 8.0.1 standard. I've been using it now for a few weeks and thought I would post up my initial impressions and a quick review.
Likes

• The UI is gorgeous, but we all knew that.
• No problems with backward compatibility, so far
• Composite apps, more on that later
• The sidebar able to accept Google Widgets

Now, I know all of that is old news, as is Lotus Notes 8x and these are things most everyone likes. In the few weeks I've been using it I've encountered on a couple of issues and they were mostly my fault. But these are the things that I don't like about the Notes 8.0.1 client
Dislikes

• The toolbar doesn't stay the way I put it, everything is in a different place everytime I start Notes 8 (See below screenshot)
• Sometimes you have to play gently with it or it'll crash on you
• That freakin' huge java console screen when the client crashes, it's bigger than my monitor
• Some widgets I remove from the sidebar come back

Overall I'm really enjoying Notes 8. I mean the things above that I don't like don't happen that often, except the toolbar thing which is really annoying. Now, we just need the designer client to be in Eclipse which will be available for Notes 8.5, but until then I can live with this