Sure, Windows Vista is cool, sort of, and it's got some neat new functionality. But what would you say if I told you that the vast majority of new end user features in Windows Vista were already available to you--most of them for free, no less--in Windows XP? And that by skipping Windows Vista, at least for the time being, you'd be left with a PC that was faster, more compatible with the software and hardware you own, and just about as capable as an otherwise identical PC running Windows Vista?