Despite Microsoft’s marketing efforts to convince everyone that their Vista OS is not a monster, many people, when faced with a new or replacement computer situation, shudder at the idea of “that scary Vista”.  I became slightly obnoxious with a sales guy once in a shopping mall who tried to convince me that Vista was fine. I refused to believe him.

Not only did I buy a Dell-forced-Vista laptop, but I begged my husband, Eric, to give me dual bootup access so that I could use both XP and Vista.  Surprise, surprise!  I ended up adapting quickly to Vista.  Now I have a Vista laptop (with XP on it too), plus an XP desktop computer.  There’s a mix of OS’s in the house, but the newer PC’s are all Vista. No one is complaining.