in regard to anti-trust actions by various governments against MS, none have had any effect AFAIK. prosecutors also make a great show of combatting organised crime, including such dubious entities as the "mafia", but it continues to increase unimpeded. Initially there will be a great deal of resistance to vista, which will cause tremendous problems for new and old users alike, but it will follow the pattern of OS X, upon which it was based. the pattern is this: 3rd-party software and hardware developers will stop creating updates and new versions for older machines, thus eventually forcing older machines back into the recycle bin (PRC). early adopters of the new OS will extoll its various virtues in an attempt to cover their mistake of rushing in where prudent individuals feared to tread. eventually a vocal minority of early adopters will begin badgering and insulting users who chose to stick with the older, simpler system. even as it happened with OS X (4 or 5 years ago), so it will be with vista. 4 years from now, y'all will be using it, and the difficulties of the first two years will only be a dim memory.