Heh, to please the shareholders maybe?
Personally, I wouldn't touch it until SP1 at least. M$ has a bad habit of using early adopters as beta testers. Plus, many third party apps will require driver updates. This will take a while, and some programs will be orphaned.
I may never get Vista. I build my own boxes and am a video hobbyist, not into gaming at all. My encoding apps run fastest on Win2K Pro. They run almost 10% slower on XP. From the benchmarking tests I've seen, CPU-intensive tasks can run approx 20% slower (than XP!) on Vista. That is not progress from my point of view. When encoding, I'll peg the processor for hours at a time, and I want minimal background services running. Nor do I need a crapload of RAM, encoding uses surprisingly little memory. It's the graphics in Vista, I guess, that needs so much RAM. Then there's the whole "security" can of worms and the DRM (digital rights management) thing.
Bleh. If new killer apps come out that I must have and won't run on XP, I'm sure there will be Linux alternatives I can go to.
