I think Vista had to be after win 7. It is heavy and need more powerful computers and it is only for 64 bit machines. 32 its is too small for Vista. My friends who run Vista on 64 bit machines with 8 or more gigs of RAm are happy wiht Vista. The ones who is 32 bits and 4 Gb of RAM - all hate Vista. I think they dind't make good marketing target with Vista. or well if they did a publick beta wiht Vista, their mistakes would have been fixed before tha actual release. Like DAZ3D amde with C7, the public beta did pay off. I mean so far, Carrara is one of the best releases ever made by DAZ3D. They didn;t make it perfect and didn't fix all of the bugs, but they really made many things way better. Now if I would have to choose which ne ot buy, C6 or C7, I would take C7. And of course pro version. I dind't ever think that 3D paint can be so useful to have. Model mode in assemble room is very useful, Multi pass rendering is good addition. Yet I would lek to be able to render passes on their own with no need to render whole image as well. What I would liek to see more is render layers or well scene layers, clothsoftbody dynamics, 64 bits (even though I am 32 bits and wont get 64 bit machene anytime soon) everything else are good enough. Someone say C7 is a bit rushed release, yet in my eyes it is quite good and way better release than C6 was. all developers for public software should do public beta versions to be tested before releases. To make everything perfect is impossible but to make quite good this is the best way. and C7 works very well on Win 7 ;)