It doesn't matter how bad of a train wreck Vista is. 5 years from now 80% of the windows market will be running it anyway, simply because Ms won't sell you any other version anymore, and any new system will come with Vista preinstalled.
Personally I think Vista is a very bad idea all around, but MS has a lot more marketing power than I do. :-)
The bad thing for consumers (and especially hobby programmers like most of us), is that microsoft's long-term vision is to make the PC a boxed microsoft solution, rather than a general purpose computer. More and more DRM, harder and harder to run 'unsigned' or 'untrusted' software, etc. Especially since they see Linux and the open source market as a big threat to their business, they are slowly but steadily trying to make it harder and harder to run those 'dangerous' programs made by people who haven't ponied up Microsoft's 'protection' money.
Personally I think Vista is a very bad idea all around, but MS has a lot more marketing power than I do. :-)
The bad thing for consumers (and especially hobby programmers like most of us), is that microsoft's long-term vision is to make the PC a boxed microsoft solution, rather than a general purpose computer. More and more DRM, harder and harder to run 'unsigned' or 'untrusted' software, etc. Especially since they see Linux and the open source market as a big threat to their business, they are slowly but steadily trying to make it harder and harder to run those 'dangerous' programs made by people who haven't ponied up Microsoft's 'protection' money.