Vista deserves all the criticism directed at it and more. But won't Microsoft eventually stop selling XP? (It is already almost impossible to get a new windows PC not bundled with Vista.) Then follows the usual cycle. The richest companies, or at least the highest paid people in the richest companies switch to VISTA, in the course of getting new machines. The serfs inside the companies and outside contractors have to switch to VISTA to be handle those companies files. And now if you want to do business with those outside contractors you need to have VISTA. And so it spreads - proving once again that Windows is the ultimate computer virus, and Microsoft the world's leading malware producer. Any reason this time will be different?