[JesseK]

Heh, Vista has shyed me away from MS OS's until about 2-3 years after the OS comes out -- permanently.

I bought a laptop with Vista -- my old Solidworks doesn't work in Vista, only 1 out of 3 of my games works in Vista, the wireless randomly drops its connection when my work laptop (same Dell make/model but with WinXP) doesn't, oh, and with home networking randomly my computers will disappear in Vista's version of Network Places. To write a software driver for Windows Vista so a custom circuit works off the USB port like it does in Linux and WinXP -- well, let's not get started. I don't have $400 for the SDK to do it "properly".