[Black_Knyght]

I have had quite a bit of experience with both XP and Vista, both on personal and professional levels, and have to honestly say that in my opinion Vista just hasn't lived up to it's much lauded expectations.

Even several notable computer-industry websites and magazines have indicated that many of Vista's users who find it an improvement have a bit of a "shiny new thing" mentality, and often justify it's use over XP without any measurable or "proven" marketable evidence. Even several large corporations have opted to retro-install XP over Vista, because for all it's faults XP have had the benefit of time and effort to improve it as much as it has.

Vista may yet turn out to be the Golden Goose that Microsoft hoped it would be, but at the moment it just comes packaged with more headaches than benefits.