Vista is a modest suburban home, with a sprawling, ten story industrial plant stacked on top, capped by an impressive glass and steel spire that rises 1,000 feet in the air but has occasional problems with windows falling out.
Vista's advocates like to brag that Vista is a lot taller than OS/X and thus can hold many more people (support many more applications). Corporate America, being dependent on those applications, has no choice but to lease space in Vista.
But which building would you rather live in? ;)
The former. Because, the latter is full of people like you.