Its interesting, does this mean that new pcs might still ship with XP on them? I am still running XP, though my step kids both have vista. i recall wanting vista badly when it came out, but my old pc wont run it, and no money for to upgrade. After the kids got theirs for xmas, I had the joy of hooking them up to my router.
I've played around with vista on a minimum style machine and on a fully blown deal, and i'm not so sure I like it. Too many annoying things that seem to pop up. Its like they had all these great ideas, but instead of streamlining them in, they just added them all in. I find most of thier popups useless or needless, even though they are designed to protect the end user I find that they don't. My step daughter actually installed some crap that took me forever to get off her pc, because she thought it was one of those popups and was ok to click.
It also seems like theres a lot of redundancys in it, where you can get to the same place to do the same thing but mulitple ways. I guess to me, XP seems more user friendly. Then again, maybe i've not spent enough time with vista yet.
The scariest part is my dad needs a new pc, and will likely buy one with vista. He hasn't enough come close to mastering XP yet, and constantly needs my help. Not an issue, but it will be with vista because I can't help if I haven't mastered it myself.
Maybe vista will end up the way windows 2000 did and just kind of fade away. At least its better than windows me was though, LOL.