I'm so far around the bend that I can make out my own butt just a little way up ahead.

Apparently I'm a lucky one too.  I've had my Vista for over four months now, and it's been great.  The only problem I had was when an update didn't install properly and it kept crashing, but in less than an hour I was able to roll it back to the previous update status.  But that was a one-in-a-million glitch.  Other than that, I couldn't possibly be happier with it.

...Unless it came with free coffee or something.

OK, shall we bring an END to that discussion?

As you wish.

Now the all important question: is the release of Win 7 signalling the death knell of Vista?

Has Vista's life expectancy been somewhat shortened by 7's arrival?

I hope not... support-wise, that is.  Despite having Win 7 on mine and the missus' machines, I expect that we'll be keeping Vista on our spare machines into the foreseeable future and hope that MS will continue support for quite some time to come.

In any event, we should be grateful for Vista, and all its mistakes... though none greatly affected me.  If it were not for the new ground that Vista broke, all the new coding and technoligical advances, including the glitches and mistakes, Win 7 would not be the great OS it is today.

Thank you Vista.... and hail Win 7.

Windows 7 is built upon Vista. It is still Vista at it's heart. Just an upgrade is all.

I'd like to show you a series of pictures and find out what you see

You should ask tazgecko for his coffee coaster...

My disk arrived today but you can't have it.

I have Vista Ultimate here if anyone wants to buy it before it goes on ebay

and now decorated with a nice coffee ring. 

I'm still waiting for something to go wrong. Strange days we now live in Fuzzy ... strange days

Yeah, it's a bit of a thumb twiddler, really.  You bung in the disc, enter your keyboard and region details, and away it goes... leaving you to twiddle your thumbs for half an hour while it does the business.  Apart from entering the product key and personal details a bit later, there's nothing else to do.  I even noticed that all my proggies installed faster than in XP or Vista on the same machine... so hip-hip hooray for Win 7.