When you read quotes like this:
I’ve been using Vista on my home laptop since it shipped, and can say with some conviction that nobody should be using it as their primary operating system — it simply has no redeeming merits to overcome the compatibility headaches it causes. Whenever anyone asks, my advice is to stay with Windows XP (and to purchase new systems with XP preinstalled). – Joel Spolsky
Its hard to want to upgrade.
I HIGHLY recommend that anyone interested in Vista go get VMWare (it’s free) and create a VM first. After “playing” with it for a while and testing out compatibility with the applications you use regularly, then decide if it’s worth it. Some will say yes, some will say no, some will keep using OS X cause it’s better. 😉
I can confirm this. A colleague at work ordered a Dell XPS with Vista. It began seperately blue screening on him and corrupting the .pst files in both Windows Mail and Outlook 2007. He sent it back and is ordering an iMac instead!