Gervais...
You cant talk to the anti-ms zealots.
Vista is LIGHTYEARS ahead of XP. Its new, and different, and the stick in the muds fear change. If they think Windows 7 is going to be different, then they are in for a rude awakening. MS isnt going back to the bad old days of leaving all the doors to its OS wide open to all intruders. You better learn to deal with it, or be willing to use an old an inadeqate OS into the future. You cant leave and go to Linux or Mac, because they have the same kind of user restrictions.
MS finally did what they should have with XP, and wrote a MODERN semi-secure operating system (just like OSX and Linux BTW).
The all-my-doors are wide open freedom (and irrisponsibilty) of the previous versions of Windows is comming to an end. I kinda wish MS put a kill switch in earlier versions of windows. Then they could throw the switch, and all those zombie spam mailers, phishing bots and virus servers running on XP and prior would dissappear overnight. The internet would breath a sigh of relief!
As for the question of Vistas succesfullness....
150 million copies sold, at lets say a conservative $100 a pop,
equals 15,000,000,000 (Thats BILLION) dollars.
Not bad for a product out for 1.5 years.
Even if all the people who bought those 150 mil copies stopped using Vista, MS still has the money!
I have been keeping track of the webstats on my websight, and in the past 8 months, Vista users have moved into the #1 spot with 11.5% hits, up from #4 8 months ago.
Vista right where it should be in terms of uptake. It takes its share from the XP users (XP dropped to second place with 8.5%, on my site).
Kurt
