Go Vista

I use a Mac at home and love it. I use Vista at work and on my HTPC and I don't mind it. If you've got a newer machine Vista is better than XP. For various reasons Vista has received a bad reputation. Microsoft knows they shit the bed on Vista marketing and the Mojave Experiment is leading their response. Unfortunately, I agree that it's bad science, and bad marketing.

However, more important to me is that despite what some people would have you believe, Vista is doing well. Microsoft has sold over 180 million licenses as of July 2008 and sales will likely accelerate. That makes me happy since every new Vista user is one less user of IE6, the bane of my profession.

So please, if you can't go Mac, go Vista. If you can't go Vista, at least go Firefox. Either way, you save a developer.