Windows

I seriously doubt Vista is even nearly ready for either serious home or commercial use.

Firstly when will MS wake up to providing family licenses.

For home users, most present games simply will not run under Vista, most digital cameras will fail to be read under Vista (unless you also have XP, you can't even retrieve let alone view your photos), then there is the DEBACLE of re-activation if you install some game emulation software, or dare I say it, even update some drivers.

And as for drivers for anything but the latest hardware.........

For commercial use, it is so tied down to hardware configurations, a ghost disk might be needed for EACH machine, and even updating a network driver (If one actually exists) may cause an activation issue on EACH computer. As for updating any system driver, heaven help us.

It was bad enough with Office XP needing install disks with admin privilege to add some everyday feature.

Any sensible corporation needs an operating system and software that can be installed and maintained via the network and that is NOT machine dependant.

An operating sytem needs to be, MUST be stable and reliable over YEARS, not MONTHS if lucky!!!!

As for excuses, if IBM can sell software that runs on 35+ operating systems, where activation isn't an issue..........

For Goodness Sake, a computer can't even run without an operating system.

As for MS's quirky rights system supposedly protecting Microsoft.

If software or an OS is good enough people will want to BUY it!!!!!!!!!

Vista is crap. I have had so many users come to me asking questions about Vista on their home machines. I dont have it for a reason: I dont want to buy a new PC to run a bloated OS.

I've told a few that bought PCs with Vista installed: try to exchange it for a PC running XP.

It may not rule but it WILL dominate as MS does ... they are the Borg and whether you like it or not you will be assimilated