An interesting thing about vista was the mojave experiment. I've had Vista for one year and I honestly didn't have much trouble with it. No BSOD, everything worked.
The only thing that put me off was that it took a lot of space on my hard drive. I installed it on its own partition and allocated about 24 GB of free space which after installing visual studio and office 2007 were down to 4 GB. Add the swap file and system restore files and bam, I had to take care of the free space, but that was due to my dumb mistake, I don't blame Vista for it.
@Danny, nice living you got there, have fun at the party.