It's sad that Microsoft felt the need to sell another OS. They CAN put out decent software, when they put in the requisite development time and energy. The wi

It's sad that Microsoft felt the need to sell another OS. They CAN put out decent software, when they put in the requisite development time and energy. The windows machines I work on are Windows XP SP 1, which I think was kind of the last decent MS OS. And you know what? At the risk of drawing some ire, it's pretty good. For 99% of what I need to do, it Just Works. And with good anti-spyware, anti-virus tools, I don't have any problems with malware. Really, I think that most of the problems with Vista can be traced to Microsoft thinking that they needed to make grand, sweeping changes, when they had a perfectly serviceable operating system already. It's like reinventing the wheel and starting by saying "okay, we've done the 'circular' thing, what other shapes could we use?"