Don't know why anyone would be surprised, as I read last week...Vista is the new ME. Frankly, think even ME was better.

This quote here, from http://www.news.com/Windows-XP-outsh...3-6220201.html

says it all:
Microsoft admits that the launch has not gone as well as the company would have liked. "Frankly, the world wasn't 100 percent ready for Windows Vista," corporate vice president Mike Sievert said in a recent interview at Microsoft's partner conference in Denver.
Well DUH! Personally I don't think the world was even 30% ready for Vista. This was a case of MS assuming that all would be able to run this OS with all of it's wonderful and progressive ideas...one of which being that the "world" would all be using high speed and not dial up. Vista machines are coming with the high speed connection "stuff" all ready set as default. I don't own a Vista machine but now have helped folks work on about 6 of them...two online via forums or email and the other four in person...Of those four, only one had highspeed at the time of the new purchase and she had just a few problems....disgust with the "new improved Windows Live Mail" instead of her favorite Outlook Express. Others had major problems UNTIL they switched to high speed. The two online people...one had high speed and didn't have many problems, the other is on dial up with ancient phone lines and major problems happened.