Anything labeled "Vista" is death these days.
You know who I feel sorry for? The software vendor named "Vista" who existed for years and saw their product-line name taken away by Microsoft when MS-Vista came out. Microsoft took it, and sh*t all over it, and now is throwing it on the trash-heap of software history.
The original name Vista is now worthless. That's a drag.
It's probably fine for a top of the line machine. Running it on a new, bottom end laptop is a different story. I'd be better off with Win98SE, but the manufacturer (Acer) won't even provide an upgrade to XP, much less 9x. Thus, you are reading this courtesy of Linux on a CD.