[qbunnie]

I think what we have here is a classic case of hardware/software natural selection. Its just like graphics cards and new games. Its always better, but you always lose...
Now for some off-topic goodness that has been the theme of this topic:
I thought I read somewhere that Vista has more problems, but less fatal crashes than XP. Meaning you have to reboot more, but cold reboot less, lol.
Actually, did anybody read those internal letters at microsoft? Pretty sad, I think MS got screwed by manufacturers like Intel. And it really isn't Microsoft's fault that drivers are still poor. That is the hardware manufacturer's fault. Creative didn't have a Vista driver for over 6 MONTHS after Vista came out for their X-Fi cards! That isn't Microsoft's fault. The released the driver framework (admitedly very different from XP) well in advance to releasing Vista. And IMO, getting rid of hardware abstraction was a good thing. Every try to set up surround sound with a card for live TV in XP MCE 2005? So much easier in Vista MC. As to Vista running slower, well I thought that is expected. You try to do more things, so you have to run more code. More code means slower processing.
Anyhow I have 2 Vista machines, and I dual boot on both (actually I triple boot with Mac OS X on my HP Lappy!). Still, I've been very satisfied with Vista on my clean installs. I can't imagine what it would be like using manufacturer installs. XP bloatware was bad enough.