[mike55]

When I bought my HP desktop last year, it shipped with XP and included a free upgrade to Vista. When I received VIsta and installed it, I found it went smoothly. The only things that went wrong were my doing. I'll agree that some hardware and software were incompatible; but they were old versions that should have been updated anyway. The only complaint I have is that XP had extra features tha aren't present in Vista.

I guess I'm in the minority, I have no problems with Vista.