Out with Vista back to XP Pro

I still use Vista Ultimate at work and at home however if anything goes wrong with either OS on either computer it will not be reinstalled at this time. I really do not see any compelling reason for people to stop using XP and go to this new OS from Microsoft. The major problem that I see with Vista is that the OS is just not supported with regards to hardware drivers and other ancillary software. I just received a new Dell laptop with Vista on it from work and when I found out that the Aventail VPN client was still in BETA and has not had all the bugs worked out I was a bit skeptical. Sure enough I could not connect to the work network via vpn client which created a problem for me. One option would have been to dual boot Vista with Linux Suse 10.3 and use a VPN client that I know works or I could have installed Vmware workstation and loaded an XP guest OS on vmware and configured that OS for my remote access needs. I figured that my best bet would be to stop struggling with Vista and all of its problems and just go back to the tried and true XP Professional and be done with it.

Just the other day when I took posession of the laptop I was working with one of the helpdesk techs at work and I told them that if someone who is an IT Professinal struggles with configuring and making the technology work then what do we think end users are going to put up with. The bottom line is that we use technology in order to get our every day tasks completed. We use technology to gather and manage data. When it becomes a huge hassle to use the technology it is easy for anyone to get frustrated and look for other answers.