Vista has never crashd on me, and I use it everyday on 2 different computers. I have seen some delays with ctrl-alt-del like you mentioned but only on a system that was upgraded and only has 512 ram. As for lack of compatibility with drivers and apps, once again that’s exactly what we saw when people upgraded from XP.
If it’s not a wise upgrade for you yet then neither was XP initially, but that doesn’t mean there’s not a lot of happy customers with it right now. You csn claim it’s a disaster if you want, but Vista is already running on about as many systems as all existing Apple computers combined, and is a much easier product to adapt than Linux. If you want to bemoan the lack of commercial apps that platform is like being stranded in the desert.
That's what happens when it's the default at the OEMs. The real question is how many people consciously chose Vista over XP. We see a lot of people choosing XP over Vista, especially given that the OEMs caved to consumer pressure and kept XP as an option.
Bah! You'll stop defending Vista as soon as MicroSoft drops it.
My whole shop is Windows. Vista bites dirt. It's awful. Backwards compatibility with proprietary, in-house software is the only reason that Windows was *ever* a success (and don't give me that "marketing" nonsense...no one can even name a MicroSoft commercial)...and Vista is blowing even that backwards compatibility advantage for MS.