Vista is fine for the average home user. There are games that I still enjoy playing but cannot play them on Vista because they are old. So some gamers may not like Vista.
Now, in the business world, Vista is not going to immediately be a good choice. Many businesses use legacy software/hardware that won't run with Vista. Upgrade? Sounds easy, but there are many reasons why businesses keep with their current system. Some places don't get the proper IT consulting, some places can't afford to, some places are forced to keep with legacy software due to the nature of their business and the systems the connect to.
I worked at a place where we couldn't upgrade them from 2000 to XP because of their legacy software. They would've been happy to pay to upgrade their software but their software was vital to their business and it was mandated by outside sources that they only use that software. Unfortunately all their outside sources used the same software, and everybody in that industry refused to update the software because it worked. So here I was with a client who was stuck on windows 2000 for the longest time. A patch was finally put out because people weren't able to easily obtain Win2K licences anymore, but they'll be in the same boat for Vista now.
Same with my curernt workplace. We can't consider going to Vista until late 2008 or early 2009 due to legacy software (which will be replaced by summer of 2008). Many tools that we use in the IT department didn't work with Vista ultimate, so we downgraded back to XP. Thankfully we have licensing that allows us to downgrade, many people don't have that option yet.
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