"So then I walked into the PC store and asked for a copy of Windows Vista."
I believe that Windows Vista is absolute rubbish.
That is just my opinion. We live in a free, democratic world, (allegedly anyway but that's a different story) so therefore I have the right to tell the world how useless I think Windows Vista is.
Chances are that as you read this page you are in one of the following situations.
1. You currently use Windows XP and are thinking of going out to buy Vista. You've read all the magazines in the shops and are about to be caught via their latest 'it's time to upgrade' feature. 'Everyone else' has upgraded so you feel you don't want to be left behind.
2. You are currently not a PC user at all but are thinking of going to buy one, possibly for yourself or your kid(s). So you are possibly reading this site on your work place or a relatives PC. You have an idea that any PC that you buy may come with Vista and are thus reading this site to read up on Vista.
3. You may have already taken step 1 above and now realize what a useless piece of software Vista really is. Maybe you even dumped a perfectly good PC, which the magazines informed you was not 'powerful' enough to run Vista with 'all it's features'.
After a few months use you begin to realize that there really aren't that many features after all and that Vista seems very familiar. Sure, you think it looks a bit different and that's why you got rid of the old PC, as it was not powerful enough to display see through windows and blur the tops of boxes.
But then, in a moment of quiet contemplation, you realize that it is all just the same as before. You browse the web in the same way. You check your email in the same way. You type a letter in the same way. You tot up some figures in a spreadsheet in the same way. You load pics from your digital camera in the same way. You upload tunes to your mp3 player in the same way.
It's all just the same. As before.
And you possibly got rid of a perfectly good PC.
Looking for your money back yet?
Never has a piece of such useless software been hyped up as much to appear decent by a groveling IT media.
But the chicken's are coming home to roost...