I’m running Vista, and xp on the primary partition. From a technoliterati point of view, it took many backward steps. I am running Vista Ultimate, and I can’t and don’t want to imagine how awful home edition is.
The incessant nagging, inability to change certain permissions, lack of compatibility with so much software… It is better to slap sp3 on XP and use that instead.
If you HAVE to use a PC, that is.