Quote - Oh, and all programs that run on XP currently will still run on XP when Vista is out, so what's the problem here anyway? ;-)

Exactly. It isn't like our XP computers will stop working the day Vista comes out. And even when using Vista, chances are that all of your old programs will run too. Microsoft has a verys good history of not breaking 3rd party software with OS upgrades. I have quite a number of programs running on my XP computer that were written well before Windows 2000 came out.