A friend saw my dressed up XP and thought it look a lot better than Vista.

I'm not a fan of Vista, as you can tell. The every-icon-is-a-button is a nuisance that hampers drag-and-drop function: it stops you from dropping a file into a folder quickly and effortlessly. Not having a choice to turn that annoyance off is a bigger annoyance.

And Vista interface still look no different from Windows 95 days in certain rudimentary system applications such as Computer Management. It's like they don't even bother to compete with Mac or Linux.