Like Ron, I've gone directly from 98SE to Vista Home Premium, and I've gone from a ten year old generic 10G, 128 RAM computer to a HP Pavilion 320G, 2000MB RAM computer. Vista has a learning curve and I agree the language leaves a lot to be desired. I find files get copied without my wanting them copied, and files often seem so thoroughly linked to their copies that trashing a file you think is redundant may erase all copies of that file. I need to figure this out.

There's also a problem with .doc files - Vista doesn't like them, and I've had to save such files as RTFs to open them at all, and then they open with a page or so of code top and bottom. This happens with emailed Word and Office files, and with transferred Wordpad files from 98SE (but my Wordpad was experiencing problems on the old system anyway). However, Word Perfect9 files are not a problem, and a friend installed WP9 on her Vista machine, where it has been running with no issues at all. I found a shareware fix for the .doc problem, but haven't installed it yet.

Vista support is terrible, I hope it gets better. HP support, however, has been stellar.

Overall, though, I really do like Vista. And, just last night I switched to high speed (wonderful!). The package came with CD and two installation instruction booklets for anything but Vista. The Vista instructions were a single sheet with hardware connection instructions. It took me all of three minutes to connect cables, install modem, and get online.