14 DAY TRIAL // Most people have considered at least once or twice the reasons to keep using Vista after installing the free Betas released by Microsoft before the official launch or after buying their own copy of the OS and installing it on their newly upgraded and Vista compatible PC.
If you're in the first category you might find most of the arguments I'm going to list here in favor of making use of Vista instead of other OSs mostly because you haven't gone radical about it and went to the store to buy yourself new Vista ready hardware. The cause of this is not the object of my article therefore I'm not going to write about it (although I suppose the money basis would be a definite turn off - it has also been my case).
If you're one of those that used Vista since the early released Betas and are still using it with the appropriate hardware then this article might give some reasons you haven't been aware of to stick to it and not give it up for anything else, be it Microsoft material or open source.
The first reason why you should hold on to Vista is the fact that this is definitely the OS that will get the most attention from anyone out there: from Microsoft which will concentrate on improving it, the software companies that will surely make a target out of developing software for, pretty soon, the OS with the highest share on the market and the game developers that will inevitably take a big bite out of the DirectX 10 craze and start devoting themselves to the creation of compatible games.
The DirectX 10 games is another argument due to which people will choose Vista instead of other OSs because it is the only platform on which this type of games can be played. And if you are a real gamer you can't skip the chance of witnessing the promised gaming revolution with your own eyes. If this means you'll have to own a PC running Vista with mind-blowing quantities of RAM inside then so be it! I'm sure that won't be a problem for the hardcore gamers out there.
Another motivation is the fact that Vista is stable enough and doesn't crash when you least expect it so you can use it as your working environment. In case something does happen I'm sure the System Restore feature that comes with the OS will get you out of any trouble - it has helped me and I haven't had any other problem ever since.
A further reason would be the eye candy Vista comes with. It isn't the best looking OS out there but it sure beats XP so, if you're a person that likes to work with a good looking OS, you'll certainly opt for Vista which is better looking with its default graphic settings than any XP system - we're not talking here about the XP OSs that have been tweaked so insanely you can't even recognize what exactly they are: Vista, MacOS or some kind of Linux flavor.
I think this pretty much sums up the top reasons why you might not have to downgrade to XP or to upgrade your XP installation by installing one of the many Vista versions on your PC. In case you might think of some other arguments that could make other Windows users out there keep using Vista or upgrade to it, leave us a note so everyone can benefit from your experience.