snarfies1 :
Why?
Seriously, what will Vista give you that XP doesn't?
DX10 features in games. Right now, it's not a major thing, since the only DX10 game I'm playing is LOTR Online, which has a DX10 patch, but at least I can say I'm getting my money's worth with Vista and a 3870x2 (well almost, LOTR Online has issues with both Crossfire and SLI).
Can't wait for DX10 native CRPGs to arrive. Also, more dual GPU support in games would be nice.
As per the thread, I had no issues with updating to Vista SP1. I'm even using a PCI RAID card for a couple of legacy IDE drives that has only engineering drivers for Vista, still have no issues (as the card manufacturer's programmers did a good job). Maybe I've just been lucky?
bydesign :
I wont uninstall it but I wouldn't do it again either. The game issues I have had just aren't worth it to me to waste the time going back.
I'd say your problems are with 64 bit Vista, not SP1 in particular. I'd thought of updating, but I mostly play games and have heard horror stories about both 64 bit Windows and games. When game support is good on 64 bit, then I'll go for it, but I suspect that 64 bit won't work out for gamers until "Windows 7" or whatever it's called.
Though I haven't had bad Vista experiences, my wife didn't like it and wanted to go back to XP. Perhaps Vista will be known as "Son of Windows ME" or "Windows ME Too". Let's hope the next OS is good.
Some of the features touted by Microsoft drone executives for their next OS just don't work for me, like touch screen capabilities etc. Sort of reminds me of the article I read years ago where a Microsoft exec claimed that no one wanted to spend much time on the net, that people just wanted to find things fast, like airline schedules, and then get off. He claimed that nobody read or watch video all that much.
Though this was back in the 56k modem days and way before Youtube, I was reading as much on the net as off. The Gutenberg project and other university sites provide a wealth of material, especially for wannabee medievalists and lovers of folklore and fantasy like me. That exec thought that what he wanted to do was what everyone else wanted.
That's the problem of "one size fits all" visions, the kind that Microsoft has been known for since Windows 95. I don't assume everyone's like me. Bill Gates and company assume everyone else is like them.