You know what is so funny about all of these anti-Vista comments? I heard the same thing when Windows 3.1 came out. DOS was so much better and you couldn't play some games. Then when Windows 95 came out Windows 3.1 was so much better and people weren't going to upgrade - but yet they did. Then Windows 98 came out. 95 was so much better. Anyone see a trend here? And so it continues to this day. I see it even here at work. The system we replaced about 5 years ago was a DOS based Novell app. Everyone hated it. We replaced it with a VB6 Windows app. WOW, all of sudden that old system was perfect. Now we are starting to looking at replacing the new system. Well guess what? The new - new system can't hold a candle to the old - new system according to some. Again does this sound familiar? As soon as the free upgrade comes for my laptop, I'll probably install it there. I probably won't do the desktop for awhile. It just needs a rebuild on it, but I probably won't be buying XP for it for awhile - I need to let the computer budget rebuild for awhile as I bought my laptop and a few other toys for the computers recently.
Bottom line, is to all of these nay sayers. We've heard your song and dance before. Most of it is just BS because people don't like change or are afraid that someone else might learn something they don't know. Working in the IT field (where real work gets done besides playing games), I haven't really heard anything bad about it. I know we have a few folks running - granted we aren't running out and putting on it on everytone's desktop either. But those that do have it (most of them since November) are pretty happy with it.