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i have to agree with Cloaked Lurker on just about everything he said. i don't even see why there NEEDED to be a Vista... as soon as they patched XP to the point where i didn't get the BSOD every other day, i was content. then the next month i hear they're coming out with a new Windows by the end of the next year...was there something missing from XP? i already had everything i needed... in the words of a friend of mine, "the one thing I really liked about Vista is it was aesthetically pleasing. now if only I could've gotten it to play my XP games and not keep bugging me on whether I wanted to open the file I JUST CLICKED ON, I might've kept it." this was after i downgraded it to XP for him. not a simple task either. almost turned his PC into a doorstop...
mypoint being that the only thing most people want out of an OS (even those who don't know what that is) is to run OTHER programs. anything extra is just that: EXTRA, and should not be at additional cost to the consumer. many of the "upgrades" were merely visual or simply a rearrangement of commonly used programs so that veteran users would have something new to "learn", when in fact much of the "new" features can be implemented on XP. as for DirectX10, i've read interviews from game coders saying that much of what it does could be implemented using DX9 (with more extensive coding of course), not to mention that MS could've just coded it for XP...whoops, just mentioned it.
so i reiterate, give me ONE THING i couldn't live without that's on Vista.