Most people have significant gripes with Vista because of an assortment of smaller issues. Like the 'mouse properties' screen hanging for 5 minutes when one changes the mouse sensitivity. I found that one particularly amusing.

Sluggishness is also a huge problem for people. I couldn't stand waiting for 4 freaking minutes for my laptop to start up. XP does it in 2. Shutting down is probably a worse ratio. This problem is common in all Vista installations. Even the basic dialogs to change system settings take fucking ages. It's a feeling I haven't experienced in years, since I was using a 1.6ghz p4 with 256MB RAM.

Sure, they're not show-stoppers. After they fixed file transfers, one could overlook all of these stupid annoyances. But the main thing is.. there are no real improvements over XP. There's nothing major Vista can do that XP can't, aside from DirectX 10. It looks prettier, but that's only skin-deep, and anyway Linux and OSX look even better. Even UAC is easily bypassed by virii.

So instead of nitpicking about bugs, or saying "oooh look all of these bugs really aren't bugs", we should really point out that there's .. well.. no real reason to upgrade, & that's the main reason why nobody minds sticking with XP.

The inventors of the internet did not anticipate the xbox-huge bittorrent packets flooding the pipes. What we need is better flow control -- an engineering solution to an engineering problem. It's not a net neutrality thing at all :-)