So far, almost everything I've heard about Vista is negative. Sorting through all the posts I've read on several boards, it seems at this point that Vista is only really useful to users who don't expect much from their pc's other than the most basic functions. Resource intensive programs perform poorly, when they work at all. Perhaps a future barrage of service packs may solve the problems, but that's going to take a while. If the past is any reliable indication, we may be talking years.