I don't really have time right now to respond to each point, but I'll do a more detailed response later.

To take a few quick points, however, "If you can live with the constant prompting for permission, hats off to you. Otherwise, you can eliminate this annoyance by disabling UAC through User Accounts And Family Safety within the Control Panel."
It's actually incredibly easy to turn it off. Any PC is going to need some customization.

Jumping around a bit, #4, I don't run into it at all. I mean, I can read reviews about how that happens, but I just don't have it. I click one button from the start menu to shut down, it's...I really don't have a problem with it, nothing else to say, and I've been using Vista since launch.

#5, again, didn't ever have that. I even got Diablo 2 to work on Vista, as well as XP programs like Photoshop CS2, Flash CS2, and everything else. I constantly hear about the incompatibility of Vista, but I just don't see it. And let's not forget, it's not like at the release of XP things weren't compatible. If anything Vista takes it on pretty well.

And of course it uses more memory. That's the same as complaining about new computer games being too hardware demanding. It's not like at the release of Windows 9 or whatever you're going to need 12mb RAM because it's so efficient. 1 GB ram will be completely obsolete, it's just inevitable. Every OS is going to use more and more memory, and I'm betting Windows 7 is just about even with Vista. Memory demand is not going down, no matter who complains. There's just no way to expect the next OS to be less demanding.

I'll do a full response tomorrow, but what I am saying is what people complain about with Vista is simply not true. At least for me it's not. It's a great Operating System which has been severely overlooked, in my opinion.