I waited more than a year with the transition to Vista since you only hear bad things about the operating system. Finally, I've yet to buy Home Premium and am fully satisfied with it. Everything is going well and without any problems. Have even XP driver uses the Vista has accepted without a murmur. My PC is no longer the newest (P4 3GHz 2GB Ram Radeon X1600Pro) and Vista is with me just as fast as before XP. So I can only recommend and advise to switch. For me Vista is the better XP: Clear and orderly, useful new features (previously you had to buy separately). And if someone wants to have a rocket as a PC, to the stop DOS and NC run. many greetings! :-)