Go back to Vista in a year when all those problems are solved. I always stay one OS behind.

Agreed. Dump Vista, stick with XP. You'll soon be hearing of thousands and thousands of businesses doing the same thing-- when they try to run their Visual Studio and Visual Basic programs (whiich were perfectly compatible with XP) and discover that they no longer work.

It's pretty bad when a company doesn't stay compatible with its own products.

LOTS of people feel the same, Wilson. Vista is a bloated Me. It has some nice features, but at the cost of many more nice features in XP.

When a company tells me I can't create a text file in my own root drive, they've gone from being a service to a computer dictatorship.

I use my computer for music production, Photoshop, watching TV, listening to music, and also schedule appointments. The only problems that I am having with Vista is the whole RAM thing. They say 1GB, but I am going to say 2GBs. I cannot run it with Aero glass and all of the things that I run. As I am reading this, I am seeing that you want Vista to know exactly what drivers it needs to have for each individual at the launch---That would be pretty amazing don't you think? I have transitioned to Vista nicely, and it does run a lot better than XP. I think that what they need to do is let everyone know that, in order to work, you will need to go find all the drivers for everything that you have, as far as printers and other external peripherals. If you don't want to use the latest and the most recent software, then by all means stay with XP!

I just received my CD upgrade to a recently purchased computer. You know the kind that said you will receive a VISTA upgrade when available. In any case when my CD's arrived I read the instructions for installation. I have to back up everthing (which I do anyway), create a recovery disc (which I have already done), install the latest BIOS, run the "windowsvista/upgradeadvisor (which I should not have to do if the computer came equipped ready to upgrade to VISTA, disconnect and uninstall all peripherals, including printers, scanners, cameras and USB devices. Then after running two CD's I have to upgrade VISTA and check the BIOS upgrade.

I do not recall having to do all of this during all the upgrades, beginning with the very first one, (I am old). This is alright if you are a real techy but for my home use I will just stay with XP which has been running very well lately (having fixed most of the problems).

I believe this is directed more for business IT departments. I guess someone else will have to come along, as MS did, and direct business towards home users and topple MS as they did big blue.

I've been shopping around for a new laptiop only to find everything at BB and CC to have Vista. I really have no desire to jump into Vista at all. A major concern is whether MS Office Pro 2003 will work on Vista. I keep hearing from sales reps that I need the MS Office Pro 2007. Will Office Pro 2003 work on Vista? Or perhaps I should go to Costco for that Gateway with XP Media Center on it......the only computer I found with XP installed instead of Vista. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

I got this rig 28 Oct. 2006. It came with XP MCE 2005. It suits me just fine thank you very
much. For the price of Vista, I can get a few games or run a few bar tabs. coastie65

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eMachines T5212.... Intel Pentium D 945 3.4Ghz..... evga 8600 GT 256 Mb PCI-E video card..... Realtec HD audio......2 Gb 533 Mhz DDR2 memory..... Lite on CD RW; DVD +R / RW DL optical drive...... Windows XP MCE 2005....... Antec Basiq 500w PSU......200 Gb PATA HDD