Microsoft Vista is not that bad...
I'm a Mac-head - people who know me already know that. Despite all the negative things I hear about Vista, I've been using it regularly for almost a week now and it's extremely stable. My daughter has been running Vista on her laptop since last summer without a hitch...
So I'm not quite sure what all the mumbling has been about. Personally, after the initial "cool" factor, I feel like I'm using XP with a hacked interface. There really isn't that much of a difference between the two.
However, Office 2007 is a huge improvement over Office 2003! It's a much more pleasant application environment to be in. That's something that I think has been missing in Microsoft apps since the global acceptance of Windows 3.1... and that's only because Win 3.1 was a much more pleasant environment than DOS.... :)