Since I use Windows mainly for gaming, XP is superior in speed and compatibility to Vista. It is also smaller than Vista and costs alot less -— hey, MS, what is wrong with this picture?? :-)
For my other work I prefer MAC OSX or Linux where I can have file journaling and other advanced features that Vista does not have.
The new OS X Leopard will cost about $129 as opposed to Vista (full Ultimate version) at about $500 or so. Hey, Billy, you are losing alot of business :-)
NTFS has had journaling for years, and also has a lot of advanced features of its own. You're out of date.
More importantly, if you're using FAT32 for critical Windows partitions, you're missing out -- NTFS is considerably safer in most respects. Unfortunately it is still largely incompatible with other OSes.
The only time I use FAT32 is when I have to have read/write compatibility across my Win/Lin/OSX boxes, at the filesystem level (e.g. external drives). Network (e.g. SMB/Samba) sharing is unaffected.
Probably you know this, but the 32GB limitation on the size of a FAT32 volume that is imposed by Win2K, WinXP, and OSX is totally arbitrary -- Microsoft forces you to use NTFS. But Linux will happily build a FAT volume up to the actual limit of FAT32 (something around 500GB as I recall). It's just a matter of how big you can let your clusters be (if you're mainly storing small files, a large cluster size becomes very inefficient of space). But if your big volume is holding mainly big files (MP3, videos), having a large cluster size (like 32KB) is a who-cares.