I wasn't comparing it to ME, I was just pointing out that according to both Netryder and yourself that Microsoft can do no wrong.
What's wrong with Vista, well I've posted it before but its pretty straightforward. It is not ready yet. There are many inconsistencies and incompatibilities. There are many programs that do not work with Vista yet, there are many drivers that are not available yet. The UI is very clunky and inconsistent. There is tons of DRM added to the OS, that is never good for the consumer.
Lets start with some major problems.
1) Using the upgrade invalidates your XP key, so you cannot legally reinstall XP after you realize Vista was a huge waste of money.
2) It does not offer any performance increases over XP at all. There are absolutely no benchmarks out there that show any increase. In my personal experience with it, it is orders of magnitude slower than XP. It takes minutes to transfer relatively small files [~100MB] from one disk to another. The UI [Aero] can be very taxing even though it really doesn't offer that many effects. Beryl & Java3D desktop offer many more and detailed effects that will run smoothly with much lower requirements.
3) DRM. If you don't know why this is bad, then maybe you should read some more
about it.
4) UAC, to quote Hencry Spencer "Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly."
5) AutoCAD does not offer a version that is compatible with Vista and wont offer a service pack to fix it, that means your $4,000 software will not work until 2008 is released and you have to pay for an upgrade. That is a personal problem since I use AutoCAD daily.
3rd party software and driver issues are really not Vista's fault, well it could be if they didn't release their ABI specs fully, but knowing Microsoft they are always so good at conforming to standards.......
Whats nice about Vista?
Well the UI is more polished than XP's teletubby theme, but it is not a giant leap forward.
Sandboxing IE is probably a good idea, but time will tell if that actually helps and isn't circumvented.
Not having a full administrator account by default is a good thing.
Shadow copy protection is a nice feature, but only available in Ultimate or Business IIRC. I don't like the versioning or price structure. They should allow one copy of Ultimate to be installed on 3 PCs if you buy the full version, that would make it reasonable. $400 for one OS on one PC is ridiculous.
To me it seems like RTM should actually be a beta version. It was rushed out the door to save some face, yet it is far from complete. It is years late, way over budget, I'm sure, and lacking many features promised for "Longhorn."
Personally I think it will fail, but not completely since it is already forced on you by Dell, I just checked and couldn't get a cheap home PC with XP.
Hopefully MS will lose a significant portion of their market share. Competition is good, is they were 60% not 95% they might actually produce a decent product at a decent price. With their monopoly power they are allowed to force substandard products on the market and it becomes the standard.
I just don't see anything groundbreaking that requires an upgrade. XP has finally become a stable OS after years of patching and I don't think many companies will waste tens-to-hundreds of thousands of dollars to upgrade and I think that the business world affects the home PC market a lot. If you were using Vista at work you probably want it at home. People like what they are used to. MS has always said their biggest competitor to Office was previous versions of Office, I think the same applies here. The 98 -> XP change was dramatic, the XP -> Vista change is not. There are changes sure, but a lot are cosmetic and a lot are just down right annoying.