I’ve been running Vista for about 6 months now, and I really like it. There are a lot of issues that I have run into, but some of the minor ones are easy to fix.
For example, I downloaded e-texteditor which is like TextMate for Windows. It uses Cygwin for some advanced features, so when you try to use then (like Alt-Shift-Comma for auto-wrapping html brackets and closing tags on a word) — E goes to install Cygwin. Under Vista, clicking on “Install” does nothing.
The solution is to Run as Administrator. A lot of programs out there aren’t testing on Vista so they don’t realize that many of the features require elevated access, and if they silently suppress the issue, the user never knows what’s going wrong. It’s the fault of the application, not Vista.
SQL Management Studio Express does this to me as well. I always have to run that program as Administrator.