And as far as Vista is concerned if you start with a clean system with minimum hardware requirements met Vista is a rock solid OS. If you start with a system rife with spyware and virii, IOW the average home user system, yeah youll have problems.
Ive been using Vista since it was very early beta and had virtually no problems with it. But then unlike the average user I dont click every infected email that comes my way. I do all of the Windows updates and run an anti virus program and have no problems.
Geez, I cant even remember the last time I had a virus.