I got a laptop on sale with Vista Home on it, so I could play around with it and not pollute any of my working systems. At the moment, Vista refuses to allow any installed program to save a file to disk (and yes, I am running in admin mode), and I have yet to find the permissions controls that might be interfering. Vista is pretty, and V6I does run well on it, but keep in mind that Vista can gobble a gig of system ram to run smooth, and it was basically designed to get in the way of the user who might want to change something, so you have a learning curve if you stray from the point and click default way. Put it this way. I'm going to be upgrading soon, and I have an OEM of XP64 waiting to go into an XP/XP64 dual boot.