Vista - is it really worth it?

[Mark]

I've been playing with Vista for a day or two, and I'm not overly taken by it, yet.

To be fair though, I had a bad start - running Vista in a VM on a five year old PC. That was awful. I now have it installed on a brand new C2D box, so that's no longer a problem. However, I've not yet got much beyond the install/setup - so having to stumble my way around the new control panel (long-winded doesn't quite do that justice) and getting UAC prompts for pretty much everything I do. I therefore can't do it justice. I also admit to being very change-phobic (e.g. I only got around to upgrading my main home PC to Windows XP SP2 this month).

So, is it really worth it? Please give reasons.

PS - I know I'll have to go to Vista someday, but I could very easily reinstall Windows XP and use it. It's supported until 2009 (with security updates until 2014) after all.