Vista deserves to be bashed. I am glad it is apparently working for you, but it is not working for everyone. Vista bashing might slow down after SP1, but right now, Microsoft deserves it. For now XP is more than adequate and my software and hardware works fine with it; it does not with Vista... and I am not much of a gamer and I expect those that are are in no hurry to use Vista since there are no DX10 games yet.