RE My own reasons for prefering Mac

By your own admission you haven't touched Vista, yet feel qualified to bad-mouth it. If that isn't a bad case of 'I'm so anti-ms I can't be objective anymore' I don't know what is. In case you hadn't realised it, more and more people are coming forward with very positive experiences of Vista as demonstrated by the recent comments to the El Reg article 'Why I downgraded Vista to XP'

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/12/freeformdynamics_vista_downgrade/

Once you get used to the fact that it works differently than XP, it's really quite good. Most of the negative things about it are coming from people like yourself, or those who tried it for 5 minutes and because it was different ran away crying