Quote - if everyone just went "OMG like this is the best most perfect program EVER"...what would there be to strive for? how would they know what to fix?

True, but do you expect them to fix the OS as well ? An OS, which they never even claimed could run Poser 7 in the first place ? Its well documented that Vista gets conniptions at the slightest hint of what it thinks of as a 'hack'. Even if that 'hack' is nothing more then the legitimate owner trying to do his day to day job. It is quite possible that at the end of the render when P7 tries to allocate HDD space to write the image, Vista thinks it is some virus or something and tells it to sod off. How is something like that P7 or eF's fault ?

Yes companies pull all kinds of crap and put out buggy releases to meet their deadlines and budgets. Its a sad fact that we users are often treated as paying beta testers. But i hope you also realize that not every instance of a 'bug' is due to the software. Sometimes its just the user doing something the software was never designed to handle.

When/If eF release a compatibility update or a version that officially supports Vista, then come and bash them and their cat. Otherwise there really isn't a case to be made here.