DWarp9 - 3:07 pm on Oct 22, 2007 (gmt 0)

Well, I've never had a serious problem with Vista, and I even use Business x64. :-p
Of course, the machine I use is sufficient for the task with 4gigs of ram, but it runs everything smoothly, even extracting large rar archives, playing music videos in wmp, and writing this post at the same time with no visibly slowdown.

I get your point about new drivers being required, but for the average user, driver handling is a blessing. Everything installs automatically! I didn't have to insert a single cd to get up and running (of course, I downloaded my own drivers later, but that's because I'm picky ;-)).

If you're a power user, the second problem (no. 1 being hardware) is easily solved. Disable UAC. If you're a power user, you know what to open and what not to open, and don't need it. Get rid of it!

The only problem I've ever encountered is that MS doesn't provide MDAC in an x64 version, meaning I have to run my server in wow64 mode. No big deal, but took a while figuring out. :-) Not that this is a x64 shortcoming, nothing to do with Vista.

All in all, I'm very happy about it, and would recommend it to anyone (with sufficient ram).

Just my experience, anyway.