Vista compatibility?

[EHaskins]

Its about time for me to buy a new notebook, but I don't know if I'm going to need to downgrade it to XP after I buy it. I have read reviews on the internet, but most of them either love Vista or seem to hate Microsoft.

Has anyone had any issues running MPLab, IFI Loader/Dashboard, EasyC, or Visual Studio 2005, on Vista?

I'm not trying to start a another discussion of Windows vs. Mac vs. Linux, but I thought I might be able to get an less biased answer here than most of the review sites.

[EDIT]I'm currently looking at a computer equal to above:
Processor: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T5600 (1.83GHz, 667MHz FSB, 2MB L2 Cache)
OS: Vista Ultimate
HDD: 80gb
RAM: 2gb
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Thanks,