There must be something wrong with me. I have three machines, two Dell desktops and one Toshiba laptop running Vista and no problems. What have I done wrong? Based on all the negativity here about Vista I have to be doing something terribly wrong. Whatever should I do?
That's because your results are based on actual experience running the OS and not merely perception of how (bad) it's supposed to be.
If they run on 64 bit you would not be happy. At least one crash a day, be it surfing or running software.