VISTA: glad I missed ya.
The SP2 beta finally made Vista almost “comfy” for me. It fixed most of the worst bugs.
I LOVE CTRL+ALT+DEL. Unfortunately my megalomaniacal security group seems to think that this is unproductive material and blocks it.
That being said, I use Vista Ultimate x64 edition at home for gaming. My other machines, including my server, all run some flavor of Linux (Fedora 10 for laptop, Ubuntu for server). I really don’t mind Vista. It takes FOREVER to get it configured in the manner that it most comfortable to your use, but with 8 GB RAM, 2 160 GB SATA disks in a RAID1, 2 512 MB PCI-Express vid cards in SLI configuration, and a Core i7 processor behind it all, Vista runs like it’s supposed to(all 6’s on the experience meter).
Vista will become the next ME: dustbin material. But it’s MUCH more functional than ME ever was.