Mark Minasi has written in his monthly newsletter (part 2) that Microsoft Vista will almost certainly release to manufacturing next Wednesday.
The newsletter gives you the pro's and con's of choosing Vista as your operating system and is well worth a read.
I am still on the fence.
I will NOT buy it, not worth the loss of performance for no real advantage in GUI or performance. It rather more looks like childish OS with more and more colors and cool effects to attract the dumb people. I do not complain about the performance because my machines wont handle it but, they will do. But it is not worth the money compared to the loss of performance and that childish GUI, even XP/2003 has pushed it almost too far, though its good that you can choose classic theme.
I have had Vista Beta2 and now RC1 and I am quite satisfied with this OS… It has been very stable and I didn’t get any issue other than not being able to fly FSX in multiplayer mode. I will buy Vista64 as soon as it is available.
Denis