[antiRepublicrat]

Vista’s main feature is Security. I know security isn’t sexy or fun and it does require computer resources

Other operating systems do security very well with far fewer resources. This isn't the opinion of a lay person or one of the idiot tech columnists, it's the opinion of a Windows developer.

[PatheticLoser]

I am also a Windows developer. Truthfully, it’s hard to establish Vista’s superiority until it’s been tried and it hasn’t yet gotten the same market penetration to make it a tried and true performer. All the other minority platforms like Apple and the hundreds of Unix/Linux distros suffer the same lack-of-challenge and so they look good but they’re not subject to the same level of attacks as XP currently is. However, I am aware of many of the security improvements made in Vista, especially Vista64 and they are very significant.

I must disagree with your contention that you can provide security without a performance hit. It’s a fact that all virus software impacts performance. Security must be considered at many levels and at some level, particularly buffer overruns, you can have improvements without performance hits. But that is just no true overall.