in all honesty vista was a flop and there is no way they can fix it, even with the various service packs so they are cutting their loses and just migrating to a new type of OS. the windows 7 looks great and it and seems to be a lot better than vista. back to xp, dell laptops in their business division all come with the option of getting XP for an extra 99 bucks. you might want to check it out as i heard prices for downgrades maybe going up 50 bucks to 149 for a downgrade license
vista works fine for me, if your computer is fast enough then there is no issue. except sound card computability issues and not being able to "Record what you hear", and WMP not working. Ill give windows 7 a couple months then ill upgrade