MEEP. Sorry.
I've been using Vista for a couple of months now with no problems whatsoever. I removed User Account Controls immediately, don't bother with Windows Media Player (foobar2000 is far better than any music player for Mac or Linux), use Firefox and Thunderbird, and actually much prefer using Vista to XP.
Mind you, if it wasn't foobar2000 and IrfanView, and I guess Media Player Classic (which is much nicer than VLC), I would be using Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 100% of the time. But despite anyone wants to tell you because of DRM and whatnot, Vista is actually a much nicer OS than the various previous Windows versions.
Remember how most Mac users stuck wtih OS9 for ages because of driver incompatibilities, plugin woes and whatnot?
I think the killer, as tech support for the tech illiterate, is the number of minimum spec machines being bought by the unknowing from Harvey Norman with Vista. They HATE it - but it mostly because they just bought a laptop with only 512MB RAM and a cheap-arse, 2yo technology processor. You can have all the spaceships in the world, but if you run them on coal, you don't go far.
Yes, that IS stupid. I mean, you can't run OSX Leopard on a crappy old machine, but at least Apple won't sell you a crappy old machine with it install on it!
I've been using Vista for