After much hype about any new product, customers check out new features first. In this case, customers realized that the sidebar wasn't very special, the voice

After much hype about any new product, customers check out new features first. In this case, customers realized that the sidebar wasn't very special, the voice control features were iffy, and much of the software and driver CDs that came with their computers did not recognize this version of Windows and displayed error messages, or customers discovered by trial and error that they should go to each vendor's support page for the best and updated drivers. Another thing to keep in mind is that many installations were upgrades, and not fresh installs. That also generates problems and differences. Vista over-promised and under-delivered, but it is a good operating system. Now, nobody cares about special features like voice recognition. They fire up their tabbed web browser and virtually ignore the environment altogether. Yes, Microsoft has released many patches for Vista since its release. Also, nearly all software and driver downloads support Vista, while very few product pages listed Vista as a supported operating system earlier this year (and therefore hadn't been tested on Vista yet.) But, after users install and configure their printers, file sharing, applications, and wallpaper, they don't even notice or stress about the differences between Vista and XP. I know I don't. And why do you think Lenovo uses better hardware than Dell?