I have Vista on a new computer and not had any problems.
What is it that Vista does so badly?
Every time I exited IE, Vista would tell me that IE had stopped running then it would close and reopen without my doing anything further.
Overall slow performance.
All of the above improved or eliminated... There were some other things, but I've have to go now. Needless to say, Microsoft would not be releasing a Service Pack if service wasn't needed.