Here is an interesting c|net review of Vista:
http://reviews.cnet.com/Windows_Vist...3603.html#more.
The article's conclusions are given below. The writer believes there are no concrete reasons to switch to Vista in general. Personally, the price seems high, but there are various reasonably inexpensive ways to get Vista without being a pirate. I really can't imagine not switching to Vista--because of its very nice interface and its many perhaps smallish improvements over XP. And, where is the fun in staying with the old when the new is out. I also am and OS X user. In this regard, I can't come close to agreeing with the writer's OS X/Vista comparisons. Personally, I strongly prefer Vista, particularly Ultimate or Premium, to OS X. Oh well, one can always sign up for Bad Vista.
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Conclusion
Perhaps we're spoiled, but after more than five years of development, there's a definite "Is that all?" feeling about Windows Vista. Like cramming an info-dump into a book report the night before it's due, there certainly are a lot of individual features within the operating system, but the real value lies in their execution--how the user experiences (or doesn't experience) these--and like the info-dump, we came away shaking our heads, disappointed. Compared with Mac OS X 10.4, Windows Vista feels clunky and not very intuitive, almost as though it's still based on DOS (or at least the internal logic that made up DOS). Despite the addition of a system-wide, built-in Search, and various efforts to break away from staidly old directory trees, you still need to drill down one level to even access Search. And there are far too many dependencies on Microsoft products; this is not a very objective operating system, as preference is always given to Microsoft products (of which there are many), from MSN Search to RSS feeds only from Internet Explorer. But is Windows Vista a bad operating system? No. It's just a disappointment for PC users who hoped that Microsoft would deliver something truly exciting to finally leapfrog ahead of Apple. They failed. But stick around; this is just Windows Vista 1.0. Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is due out sometime before the end of the year. Windows Vista SP1 promises to fix what's known to be wrong within Windows Vista and should offer a few concrete reasons to switch."