Quote - I still dont get why anyone would want to torture himself with Vista - i mean what for? My XP is running fine and unless i really really have to i dont see why i should get Vista. It just slows down computers, makes many applications slow or not working at all and bugs me with nasty security notices. Doh!

My Tip: Forget Vista, use XP and you'll be a winner.

Winner? For now? Yes. But sometime very soon? Not likely.

I sympathize with the sentiment, but the fact is, Microsoft will stop security updates for XP sometime in the near future. Other software developers will increasingly move toward Vista and do the same with (i.e., stop releasing security updates for) old XP compatible apps in the next couple of years. That means known security issues in XP and related software will not ever be fixed, and those known vulnerabilities will become very common knowledge to those inclined to take advantage, and that means your computer will be increasingly vulnerable to criminals, malware infections, etc.

And of course new hardware, development frameworks, and all such capabilities in general, will be increasingly supported in Vista, and less and less supported in XP, i.e, performance and capabilities should continue to increase substantially as Vista matures. Not so much, XP.

So you and everyone else using XP should be relative winners for, oh, about the next year or so. Maybe. But even forgetting any performance advantages, as malware has increased about 175% over this same period last year, and the rate of increase does not currently show any signs of slowing ... well ... security, at least as much as performance, is likely to become a pressing issue for many.