Remember, someone fresh off XP with little computer management experience wouldn't even think you could right-click something on the start menu. And who'd think to look there when it's always been right on the desktop?
My point is, it was extremely frustrating spending all that time without being able to find something that I could find in seconds on XP.
Now that I know where and what it is, it takes seconds. And that's the thing with Vista. For someone new to PCs, who's being taught by someone with experience on the OS, it's easy once you're shown how. But for people who've been using XP for years without trouble, Vista, as well as Office 2007 and Office 2008 for Mac, is a complete nightmare. Heck, I still don't know much about Office 2007.
Y'know what else is stupid? In Vista, you can't throughput the audio from an external device, through a recording program, to speakers. You have to record it first, and then you can listen to it.