I won't chide your argument for Vista.  There are both pluses and minuses.  The problem is that many people are encountering the latter - which is why it is being dissed so much.  For all of its advantages and modern support, it does not play well with all older hardware and software (unfortunately, we can't all be at the cutting edge all of the time).  And older here can be as little as a couple of years.

Basically, for every success story (like yours), I've heard at least two horror stories (like the OP).  That does not bode well for Vista.  I won't touch it.  As a developer, I absolutely require 'status quo'.  If I can't build projects because some inherent feature or flaw of the OS kicks in to prevent it, my livelyhood is in peril.  Mr. Gates needs to provide the evidence of this before I jump in the boat - which appears to be slowly sinking.  No business that I know of will touch it either.  Rumors of Microsoft's own departments going back to XP abound (though unverified).

And there's the rub, aye.  Any user worth their salt has more experience actually USING computers than Bill Gates has neurons.  Vista is a 'user' OS - not a power, experienced user OS.  It infuriates so many real computer users that I fear a revolt.  Actually, the revolt is evident - noone with any real computer needs uses Vista - we all use Windows XP Pro SP2 or Windows XP Pro x64.  Who are you going to trust?  Microsoft pandering or users with 10/20 years experience?  (I have 20 years experience).

Unfortunately, an SP for Vista may not help.  Many experienced users are just going to keep chugging along until the next OS is released.  I hope it hurts M$ down to the core - they will see that short-changing people for control is a criminal offense.

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, you blow your whole leg off.

 -- Bjarne Stroustrup

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