The problem is most comsumer level computers, desktops and laptops come mainly with some flavor of Vista. It's becoming rarer and rarer to even find an option for XP without custom ordering it. I've been testing Vista for almost 6 months now before deploying it to my company's environment, and I just don't see any advantages of it. All the software will install just the same on XP including Office 2007. Just recently have there been products released solely to run on Vista alone.