You might want to wait a year or two to give M-soft some time to work kinks and glitches out of Vista. Also, Vista is a tremendous memory hog. At the community college I attend, our networking class was shown a PC running Vista. It had 2GB of memory, and with only wordpad and notepad open, Vista was using 27% of it.
As for me, I have Windows XP Professional. I plan on using it until the wheels fall off.
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