bill - 4:42 am on Apr 16, 2008 (gmt 0)

Plenty of people are doing just fine with Vista. If my older hardware would support it I might convert more of my machines to Vista. XP does work better on less powerful platforms. I think MS did themselves a disservice by not being more stringent on the memory/video requirements for the PC makers from the start.

A number of the very vocal people who do not seem to care for Vista very much do seem to have hardware or 3rd party software issues a lot of the time. The biggest complaints I've heard about Vista in my Enterprise environment have been about Office 2007. These two seem to get confused for some reason. There's a bit of a learning curve to the new Vista interface, but once you get the hang of it it will save you time over the old XP.

Another thing, Vista is a lot more stable for me. I only reboot when a software requires it. It just runs and runs. No crashes, no blue-screens, no unexpected freezing...like I get with XP.