IS VISTA WORTH IT? FASTER OS OR LOTS OF BUGS?

Hey Guys. I am considering doing the Vista upgrade... but is it really worth it? I do a lot of business and file transfers on the computer, day to day work with email and all. Will I notice an increase in performance and speed of working? Are there a lot of bugs and issues with compatibility with software? I appreciate your help!

I wouldn't be going to Vista if it weren't for a free upgrade from Dell for a PC I bought in December. IMO, the pricing is ROFL ridiculous. Maybe in 6 months to a year it will come down (or at least youll be able to find good deals from merchants who want to unload product). If not, I would just wait for the next new OS. It's been in development almost as long as Vista and shouldn't be anywhere near 5 more years in coming out. I predict after this we'll see a return to the new OS every 2 years model.

Vista probably isn't worth the price for what you get, but eventually as a gamer, I'd be forced into buying it for DX10. Prices never come down on Vista, plus I had some store credit to use and they gave away lots of free and heavily discounted stuff along with the purchase.

So anyway, in my experience so far: Boot time is slower than windows XP, once you're booted though, applications definitely open faster in general. Superfetch works (I have 2GB ram). The new search is instant which is nice, huge improvement there. Security is better (or annoying depending on who you are).

"Bugs" so far: Outlook 2000 has address book issues. The photo screen saver shutting down when it comes across a file type it doesn't like.
The outlook thing stinks, but I guess that software is getting old... Screen saver is no big deal.

MOST XP programs will work, but there are a lot of XP programs that were not written to standards and are not compatible with Vista. The forum stickies gives you an idea of what has already been tried.