Avoid Vista until at least SP1
This work laptop I am using has it on it, one of my laptops has it on it (experiment) and my main PC at home had it on it (other non-mains run Debian Linux)
I removed Vista from my main PC (actually my gaming rig) because it
a) Didnt have SLi (using 2 GFX cards at once) support
b) The changes Microsoft made will make drivers VERY hard to write for manufacturers - accelerated audio (a major feature of Creative sound cards) is impossible now.
c) Wierd anomalies in the file level security system - installing an update for World of Warcraft failed because it didnt have permission to put a shortcut on the Start menu - knowing what I was doing I just went to the relevent folder and gave permission for anyone (or thing) to make changes to that folder - "fixing" the problem, but breaking the system security (tho not a very high risk breach :P)
Stick with XP for the moment unless you are testing/evaluating and have another XP machine to fall back to.
David
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