I bought Vista Home Premium for my brand new laptop which was "Vista Ready". It was the worst thing I could have done. It practically destroyed my laptop. And I'm still amazed it didn't toast the motherboard. To put it bluntly, Vista is "nothing special" in a fancy box. All the new features aren't new. And you can find any of the "extras" that come with it on CNET or just about anywhere that offers downloads. Even the look of Vista is blah and washed out like it had gone through the washing machine in too hot water. The ONLY feature on Vista that might be of any use is the touchscreen, but why waste a whole bottle of Windex cleaning the fingerprints off your monitor every day? Vista makes Windows ME look like the perfect operating system. I know there are always bugs in every new upgrade, but Vista is one big bug all by itself. I couldn't use half my programs because they weren't compatable with Vista, even the ones that said they WERE compatable! 1 day using Vista is too long let alone 120 days. I'll stay with XP till they figure out what went wrong in their programming in Vista which will probably be another 2 or 3 years, THEN I might try it, till then, does anyone want a free Vista Home Premium edition?