I’ve been running Vista for over a year — seems fine to me.
This may just be more knee-jerk snobbishness (just like the anti-Wal-Mart people). People just hear a bunch of complaints about Vista, and jump on board ...
SnakeDoc
I had two complaints about Vista, though my machine is really too low to be running it. Creative drivers never seemed to get surround sound right. They crash and cause problems with my XFI gamer card. Video did not play as well, especially Quicktime. It works much better back on XP. With a computer capable of 64 bit processing, I would likely have been fine. If they had left it the way it was at points in beta, it would have been fine...
I have been running Vista on my laptop for about 18 months. I had to pay for upgraded hardware, and Vista didn’t seem worth it. Nonetheless, it’s fine.
I was most frustrated with the new Office version (7?) that it was packaged with. The Word interface was all jazzy up and it took some time to set things up so that the interface was as intuitively obvious as the earlier Word versions.
Now when I move back and forth between desktop (XP and Office 2002) and laptop (which I use infrequently) with Vista/Office 7, it gets a little annoying. Now I want all my computers to run the same software. ($$$).
Hand it to Bill Gates. He gives us reasons to spend money on his company.