Vista or stick with XP?

I was listening last night to a podcast with Leo LaPorte and Paul Thurrott about the upcoming Vista operating system and that enticed me to venture over to Paul’s Supersite for Windows website, where I stumbled across an interesting article suggesting that you can have a lot of Vista while still keeping XP, so there is no real need to rush out and grab Vista.

 What I’m getting at is that the Next Big Thing isn’t always a given. Sure, Windows Vista is cool, sort of, and it’s got some neat new functionality. But what would you say if I told you that the vast majority of new end user features in Windows Vista were already available to you–most of them for free, no less–in Windows XP? And that by skipping Windows Vista, at least for the time being, you’d be left with a PC that was faster, more compatible with the software and hardware you own, and just about as capable as an otherwise identical PC running Windows Vista?

There are a lot of good suggestions he makes, so take the time to click on the link above and do a bit of reading.