actually many new products support vista like slysoft AnyDvD,Nero 7,ConvertXtodvd the list goes on and on so i dont know when this article was written.
creative has already released eax vista drivers
drivers are also coming out and getting better
and rightclicking something once and setting it to run as administrato is not realy anoying as it sounds, if you dont like it you can disable UAC.
BTW im not a vista fanboy or anyting i had it tried it but i went back to xp due to my dreamcast emulator not working.