Quote - Looking at your quotes and the way they were worded who in their right mind wouldn’t get defensive? I guess it only appears you’re talking down to someone. I’d be more than happy to pursue a good conversation but I will not be spoken to as some sort of underling. But of course it’s hard to gage any conversation via a forum. There is no way to read ones face or hear any emotion in the voice. So it’s very easy to misinterpret any communication. ANYWAY……

I'll go with that. We can chalk it up to text fuzz :)

Quote - As far as my knowledge of XP well I spend a lot of time tweaking and ripping all those “useful” features out of it.

Everyone needs a hobby ya know? I have never felt compelled to rip a single feature out of XP. The additional disk space for the stuff I don;t use often is trivial and everything that is in memory is stuff that does things for me I like.

Quote - Things that are really not needed for the software to operate and do not need to be running the background.

I suspect you and I woudl differ in our opinions of whats useful as a feature.

Quote - I’ve gained more speed, efficiency, and better memory usage and cut down on HD bulk.

I personally havent found XP to be slow or inefficient. I am sure we woudl differ on this as well.

Quote -  And from I gather from your posts you’re no computer dum-dum and I would have thought you’d agree that there are many things in XP that are indeed not truly needed and can be cut for a more efficient  operation.

Efficient operation is an OS that does what I need and wnat it to, and does it fast and stable enough to make it a useful tool. Untill we start talkign about specific features you consider not needed we can't really discuss it much further.

Quote - As far as Vista, Oh and BTW way I wasn’t the one complaining about DRM as far as I’m concerned the jury’s still out on that one[/uote] My apologies.

Quote - I would like to see it simple to use, small in size, speedy and to the point without fluff and eye candy.[/qote] I find Vista to be all those things. For what it provides me as both a user and a developer it is wonderfully small and fast.

Quote - inside track on the final build phase. You’re telling me I have obsolete information yet you’re praising a beta version software where the future is questionable and out come is unknown.

You didn't seem to be makign a prediction or speculating, you were stating as facts what the requirements were goign to be and stating that it woudl not run well on less hardware. I stated the fact that it does - and does it well. Predictions are not, of course, obsolete (they are just unfounded) but the statements of fact are indeed obsolete.