This time I don't really see this thread as bashing on Vista... the truth is - we all paid all that money for OS that's not fully functional. When you give all that money, and if its on your way of doing your job properly, then something is really wrong with it. Even MS admitted that it's full of bugs and they are preparing huge patches for it. Again, they are acting unbelievably slow. When someone pays over 400 dollars for OS, they expect everything to work perfectly, and if not, at least to get patches as soon as possible.
Getting these patches somewhere around the mid of the next year doesn't make it ASAP, it makes it incredibly not professional from MS. Plus, there is a huge possibility that "mid of the next year" is another bad MS prediction... what if we all have to wait till the end of the next year ?
Of course they already released some "performance patches" as they call them... but those are doing so little if nothing to fix these gigantic errors.
In my humble opinion... I got hit on my pocket, and got absolutely nothing from MS this time. Vista is the biggest failure ever. I remember problems with XP, but those weren't major like these Vista has... at least you were able to work and do your job on time.