Take heart! Vista is like the Windows 98 Millenium addition (remember that cough cough OS). Millenium was more like a VIRUS then an operating system and was the final nail in the coffin for Windows 98.
Within the year windows 7 will be coming out and Microsoft will try to pretend Vista never existed lol.
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Sir Isaac Newton, 1675