[Christien]

Hmm, my experience (and that of most people I've talked to) is the opposite. XP is/was a very good system, whereas Vista pretty much sucks. My wife just got a new laptop with Vista on it, so I've been using it more over the last week or 2 and I have to say it's irritating. It wants to do too much for me, and doesn't give me enough control and access to what I want. Things like hidden files, folders, etc, stuff where you don't expect it (why do they have to relocate the desktop, my documents, etc with every new release?)

Windows seems to be like 911s - every second generation is the good one. 98 good, 2000/ME miserable, XP good, Vista frustrating, 7 supposed to be good (haven't used it yet).