On 4 Apr 2007 04:41:35 -0700, "Denny" wrote:

The complaints about Vista are only beginning... In my business I
have multiple computers running both Server 2003 and XP... The
software running on these machines are my paycheck, without them there
is no cash flow... The software is expensive and it is not Vista
compatible... So OS upgrades to Vista will have to wait until Vista
is stable and my vendors choose to upgrade their product to it...
In the event we lose a machine totally we will buy new hardware and
load XP/2003 on it ourselves...
You are only forced into Vista if you want a turnkey product from
Dell, etc... If you are willing to find some pimple faced 14 year old
hacker kid, he can whip you up a computer with any OS you need...

I'll throw my chips in with the no-Vista-for-now crowd.
Might be 4 or 5 years before it's practical for me to change to Vista.
XP will fine for me until I want an app that XP won't support.
I don't know of *any* recent - within 5 years - Win app without
XP compatibility, and most new apps will be XP compatible for some
years to come.
Getting Vista now is a sucker play if you want software (including
some hardware drivers) compatibility.
Having said that I don't have sympathy for Nobeltec either.
They knew what was in the works and should have had their
Vista upgrade ready. They'll probably lose more than one customer.

--Vic