No, but I don't use a computer as an entertainment center.

My point with you, in this whole thing is that I've got ancedotal evidence that your fears are unsubstantiated.

I've got real-world experience with the operating system. You, I'm assuming by your glowing endorsement, haven't.

So while you can point to academic papers with impunity and say "read this read this" (which I am, slowly, in between work) I've got the working knowledge that Vista is a solid, reliable piece of software that hasn't kept me from doing anything I've tried to do with it.

Lots of people who have an unfounded paranoia of MS have adopted a "the sky is falling" with regards to the vista release.

I guess I don't have that fear having friends in high places at MS. I do have some major gripes about some MS stuff though. Outlook is horribly slow when physically distanced from its exchange server. WM5 STILL doesn't have A2DP enabled (at least on my phone it doesn't) and the NTFS file system has some functionality issues that I'm quite fed up with, but I don't subscribe to the constant MS-hate speech that employs these two-sided issues as an outrageous one-sided argument.

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