What would I like? Improved speed (mostly in search, what happened to that highly touted feature for Vista?). Better integrated security, backup, and maintenance functionality. What will we probably get? Vista with some new window dressing. Its not that Vista is that bad, its just that MS waited so long between OS's that XP is firmly entrenched. There is nothing compelling with Vista to upgrade. Given that Windows 7 is on the horizon, most people, myself included, will wait for that instead.