One of my hubby's boxes is running Vista and one of his new laptops is too for precisely the same reason. Up here, even a week before the release they weren't allowed to sell xp. how they managed to sell anything during that week I don't know.

He's using Vista on the laptop for one of his piano's I think and the box is hooked up to the TV for the web.

In any event it seems to work decently -- I've only used it a couple of times because my system is still on xp.