I have to agree with rik and fastgame. I need to learn how vista works so I can support it, when and if my organization switches to it. I really don’t feel like it is worth the money. Here is an article I found that details the top 10 hated thing about this operating system and for what I have personal experience from people how has use Vista agree with this top ten:

1. You're gonna need a scorecard. Specifically, the one here to figure out which version of Vista you actually want to upgrade to, or to look for in your next PC. There will be four retail versions of the OS (Home Basic, Business, Home Premium, and Ultimate), on top of the Enterprise edition and a handful of overseas versions. Never mind the upgrade—just figuring out which version you want is a project in and of itself.

2. Pricing of Vista Premium and Ultimate. It's all well and good if you'll get Vista preinstalled on your next PC. But the enthusiasts who are likely to go the Vista-upgrade route are going to have to fork over big—and certainly won't be satisfied with the Aero-less low-end version of Vista (Home Basic), which is already steep at $199 for the full version. A full version of Home Premium, the least costly Aero-enabled Vista, is $239, and the top-end version, Ultimate, costs $399—yikes, nearly the cost of a budget PC!

3. User Account Control popups. Okay, UAC has topped everyone's early lists of Vista annoyances. Indeed, it acts like an overzealous St. Bernard at times, well-meaningly interrupting basic system tasks with its warnings and offers of aid, but without the upside of the cask of brandy. Experienced users can turn off these warnings, and you'll see fewer of them as time goes on and you authorize certain tasks. But early on, the blizzard of popups can approach whiteout conditions.

4. Graphics-hardware requirements. Much of the buzz around Vista is around the superslick Aero user interface, but a lot of hopeful upgraders are going to see the seriously dark side of the terms "integrated graphics" and "no graphics-card slot." With Microsoft's call for a dedicated graphics card with 128MB of memory, great swaths of budget-PC owners are not going to be able to use Aero without prohibitively complex and expensive hardware overhauls that could cut as deep as the motherboard. Visit this page for the gory details.

5. Byzantine install stipulations from earlier Windows versions. One look at the mind-boggling chart at Microsoft's Get Ready site should be enough to make you throw up your hands.

6. Hey! Where'd Display Properties go? Right-clicking the Windows Desktop to access the much-trafficked Display Properties dialog had become as natural a movement as a tennis swing or a conductor's flourish. Now, the same action reveals that DP has been replaced by the spuriously named "Personalize" right-click option. Granted, the display settings are there (just a second layer deep in the following dialog...grrrrrr), but this shook up our world.

7. Gimme more Gadgets. Reserve a full quarter or third of our precious Windows Desktop for Vista Gadgets, then provide barely a dozen with the OS? Bring them on!

8. ReadyBoost: big tease? You'll also notice ReadyBoost on our list of Top 10 Likes. But it's plagued by one big gotcha: Not all USB keys will work with it. You'll need a key of at least 256MB capacity, and with adequate throughput. See this blog entry from Microsoft's Tom Archer for a detailed Q&A discussion of the fine points of ReadyBoost compatibility. That handful of old, low-capacity USB keys tossed in your desk drawer that you thought you finally found a use for? Well, they may just have to stay there.

9. Please—just let me shut down! Why is the Shut Down command hiding in a submenu of the Start menu, branching off from a too-small right-facing arrow that takes jet-pilot reflexes to nail on the first mouse pass? And why do we keep clicking that big red power-looking button next to it to shut down, and keep triggering Sleep mode? We will get this straight soon—really, we will. But this area of the Start menu is eventually going to be hexed by the muted swear words of a million mildly annoyed Windows users.

10. Inkball and Chess Titans. Yeah, thanks Microsoft. We would have settled for grizzled old Solitaire and Minesweeper in the default Windows Games folder when our idle hands needed ready entertainment between spreadsheets and e-mails. But these two serial time-killers—Inkball with its addictive Breakout-esque gameplay, and Titans with its exceptionally slick look and chess smarts—are going to be death of many a deadline.

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