Quote Originally Posted by ArtistofWarfare
1) Looks good
Highly subjective- personally, I don't care for it. I also didn't care for the XP/2003 theme, but once I turned classic on it was acceptable.
2) Dx10
True- but even now, almost 1.5 years after it's release, it still isn't widely supported/implemented.
3) Added security (It's laughably more secure and stable than XP...trust me).
I'd like to see either of those claims documented with more than your personal experience. If by "secure", you mean more annoying- then yes. But nagging security pop-ups just get turned off/ignored by users.

I mean what were you hoping for out of the next OS? Culinary skills? What does it have to "do" in order to have you claim it is "worth it"?
They could start by adding the features that were originally supposed to be in Vista, but were dropped.

And if it was free- Would we even be having this discussion?
You mean if it was free, would I be running Vista? Nope.