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I wouldn't have paid to upgrade to Vista since XP is perfectly fine. But it came with a new computer and I've had no issues with it.
As for things I like in Vista, the preview pop up when you hover over an item in the taskbar is great. I use it all of the time to track progress of things in other collapsed windows. I'm sure you'll point out a dozen alternatives with XP and I wouldn't argue, but I hadn't experienced it before, it is there, and I like it.
The built in photo importing with tagging, filenaming, and directory structuring is good. The search functionality. WoW looks better with it. The built in voice recognition software worked pretty well for me though I quickly found that interacting with your computer verbally simply sucks balls.
Are any of these reasons in themself for an OS upgrade? No, I wouldn't have paid to do so. But they are things I like and so far I haven't run into anything I don't like. The only software problem I've run into is that the help files in my very old copy of PhotoImpact no longer work. Every other piece of pre-Vista software I moved over worked fine.
I'm sure, though, that you'll try to convince me that I really hate it and just don't know yet. Yes, it is bloated, all MS stuff is. Yes, it is technically inefficient, that goes with bloat. But it worked fine out of the box required no tweaking by me and makes Justin Long (in my own anecdotal experience) look like a liar.
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