Is Vista good for gaming?

ComputerWorld has posted what may be a controversial (or at least debatable)
article entitled, "Is Vista Good for Gaming? Three Reasons Windows Vista is
Terrible for Gaming...And Six Reasons Why It's Great."

The article is very detailed, and it's getting some active comments. What do you
think?

A well written article, but I didn't see much new there. They should blame ATI
and nVidia for the sorry state of drivers out there, as they've had over a year
to make their drivers work right.

As for DirectX10, they're going to need to come out with a lot cheaper video
boards before a lot of people jump on that bandwagon.

I have not heard any reports of people trying old games in "compatibility
mode", but that certainly may help some games run.

As for DX10 cards that are cheap, in my country NVIDIA's partner companies are
now selling DX10 ready video cards such as the 8600 to us consumers. Their price
is like say the same thing that a mid range 7600 card was sold when it first got
out. Though I'm not sure with how to relate this to my card since I own an ATI
Radeon X1600 since it first got out last year. 

As for incompatibilities, I did some few game testing with the games I have at
home. Most of the games that didn't run were the Win9X games for Windows 95, 98
due to some old video driver that was no longer supported in Vista, but then
again having owned an old Win 98 or Win 95 installer, I could just run it on
Virtual PC (since I have tons of memory to spare now that I got an extra GB of
RAM. RAM prices dropped here quite fast recently).

As for StarCraft, I'm worshipping the guys who developed it. For over a decade's
worth of OSes, it runs pretty fast on Vista.