Pros:  Does fix a few minor bugs which have not been deal breakers for me.

Cons:  Haven't found any yet but will post some if I find them.

Other Thoughts:  I'm not an MS/IT shill as other poster alluded to. I want to remind that one poster that it took MS 'forever' to get the major bugs worked out of XP. Sure, now, after how many years, you can reload, rebuild, build, an XP machine and slap sp2-3 on it and the thing will run pretty darn well. I prefer less with sp2.

I only own Vista on two laptops, and XP is on several desks with one being Win7x64. The two laptops have functioned exactly the same out of the box for years regardless of any updates I threw at them(Did it need them?). XP could never make that claim. It took years to get to sp3, and sp3 killed many peripherals that couldn't handle it. Some add-ons can't funtion without a service pack update.

I have yet to notice any peripheral/add-on problems with Vista or win7 when downloading updates. I guess that is what I want from an update, I don't want to know what it fixed or mess anything up(seemless). With XP, I felt I was trying to decipher a rubix cube half the time. You would get everything to work here, only to find out the update or tweak crashed something else.

XP is the 60's or 70's muscle car, stripped down, no frills, runs fast on leaded gas, gets you from A to B, it's nostalgic, and will appeal to dates over the age of 50 with white tape on glasses. XP was like trying to tune an old carburetor sometimes, by ear.

I have never had to reload a Vista machine ever, and worked with all my add-ons. That is what a computer should do in theory, run every time I turn the key. Also cars today, are better at that than cars from back-in-the-day. Best feature of old cars, you don't need to smog them. Maybe it is just me, but I'll take the Lexus/Vista/win7 and invisible updates.