not sure if anyone's jumped on the Vista bandwagon yet, but my loathing for it runs deeper than my distaste for XP a neat review of the offending OS lies here "In a controversial technical analysis Peter Gutmann goes into fantastic detail about the recently released Vista operating system and its content protection scheme. One thing became clear to me after reading this analysis. Vista is being marketed to content producers, not consumers. If Windows XP was Microsoft's attempt to embed a browser into the operating system then Vista is the attempt to embed DRM. Digital Rights Management technology has been applied to literally every ring of the OS architecture" <http://badvista.fsf.org/blog/analysis-of-microsofts-suicide-note-part-1> wrth a look if anyone's thinking of 'upgrading' k