Peerless, love your use of 'M$'.

Vista seemed like it was nothing more than a bunch of bells and whistles. Someone should have told Bill that we don't by pcs to play with the OS and stare at the desktop.

My gf uses Win7, after a few years with XP, and seems to like it (I haven't asked her why). She's a PhD in Linguistics; uses pc for large docs and photo editing. I'm awaiting more bug fixes, etc. My friend in Security says not enough hackers have attacked Win7 to point out the holes that are probably there and just not discovered yet. He designs cutting edge security systems with large data streams from cameras and sensors, and he installs only on XP or Linux.