Originally Posted by Caligula
Vista is currently a disaster. I would not recommend it to anyone. I work technical support for a software company and I have not heard a *single* good thing about it from any of our customers who have it installed. My boss (Network Admin *VERY* knowledgeable about computers) spent over 6 hours working on upgrading his system to Vista.
Your "older" programs (Diablo 2 anyone?) will not work. Windows help files from older versions of Windows aren't compatible. You will have a nightmare installing software. It's a resource hog.
Wait for the service pack. Trust me as much as you can trust an interweb stranger.
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The general sentiment here is right, though I've not had a problem with Diablo 2. If you get x86 Vista on a new machine with plenty of RAM, it will run fine. If you try upgrading or running x64 you're just gambling, it may or may not work, testing of both of those was rather pathetic. Upgrading wasn't even an officially supported scenario internally until post Beta 2 and then it rarely worked properly. Many apps will still fail to upgrade, at a minimum you should reformat and do a clean install.
If you're running an older system you'll definitely notice that Vista is a resource hog as well. Prefetch is amazing if you have the RAM to make it work, but really even at 2 gigs you don't have enough.
Perhaps I'm jaded from running so many unpolished versions and seeing all the wasted resources and worthless monitoring going on that an average user wouldn't see. But almost everyone who worked on it will tell you that it was rushed out the door before it had even been fully tested, let alone fixing any problems found in the last two months.