I default to installing the sp3 version of XP when I reformat a customer's PC. Not had any complaints, thus far. I've certainly not stumbled across any compatability issues.
Nobody has asked me to restore a PC with Vista yet. Whether this means that Vista systems aren't failing quite so badly as XP ones, which usually come to me riddled with spyware, registry errors and in general poor order, I don't know. Too early to tell, perhaps.
I may end up with a swathe of crumpled Vista systems at some point. I dearly hope not.
Nobody has asked me to restore a PC with Vista yet. Whether this means that Vista systems aren't failing quite so badly as XP ones, which usually come to me riddled with spyware, registry errors and in general poor order, I don't know. Too early to tell, perhaps.
I may end up with a swathe of crumpled Vista systems at some point. I dearly hope not.