[Flynt]

I'm no real computer expert by any means, but I have found from experience pretty much anything microsoft is gonna be f***ed up one way or another. I use XP which behaves mostly, the system ain't that bad, but I got rid of as many microsoft peripherals as possible. The programs are too big and buggy. IE and outlook were trashed, I use Firefox and Thunderbird instead, both are smaller, faster and more stable. Word is gone too, I use AbiWord, it has most the features at a third of the size and use third party media players as well, cause microsoft media player IMO is just plain useless.

Thing is, Microsoft is here to stay, all us poor PC users can do is tweak and play around with it, relpace the crap programs that come with it to suit our needs.

I wouldn't touch Vista with a 40 foot pole. Hell I was still using win98 til 2005, it worked well for me. I got XP when I upgraded my PC. You know, 'if it ain't broken dont fix it'. I think Vista is a waste of time, nothing really new in it, except for more bugs ><