I was a touch concerned when I bought my laptop and Vista was installed, but now that I have used it for several months I actually prefer it to XP. I find many of the new features a pleasure, especially the way I can view my desktop with one click as opposed to XP’s right click task bar…. select show desktop.
There really has been no downside to Vista for me. I have a friend who works for MS and was told that the OS is so much better than XP. Just like shaking hands with your left hand, it feels funny at first but you get used to it.