i seriously think you guys make some of this up....i work all day in vista too, but it doesn't crash, or stutter...or anything. i don't use any antivirus programs, haven't had any problems in a long time due to excellent use of common sense. my machines go faster since i upgraded to vista from xp. my family is mostly computer illiterate but they don't run into that many problems either - even though my dad keeps forgetting where 'my documents' is.

outside of driver problems, which can happen on any machine and why you should get good hardware - and badly developed 3rd party apps that you shouldn't run anyway - windows has been pretty stable since win2000. not as stable as my freebsd boxes, but considering how much work i do - very stable. my desktop reboots on tuesday nights for windows updates and thats about it. all my windows 2008 machines are doing fine too, just like my ubuntu servers.

vista crashing, stutering, awful ... i read these but i have a suspicion your all exagerrating

And goddammit, I write code by flipping toggle switches on the front panel of my Nova 1220 minicomputer, as God intended it to be done.

Now get off my lawn!