Indeed. Everything they were claiming was going to ship with Vista has been dropped except the eye candy. What is the point?
The only reason vista will sell is because the market has been warped by Microsoft's monopoly position.
There will be plenty of fanboys out there in the pc-computing press that will still say this is the best thing since sliced bread, as it will push hardware sales due to the incredible requirements this eye-candy costs when Microsoft does it. Hardware and software vendors buy adspace in magazines and elsewhere. This is the driver. Computers are plenty powerful these days for just about any purpose. You need (bloated) software to slow it down to the point that people will upgrade just so their system won't seem like so much of a dog.
That's for sure. Everything I've read about Vista is that most current systems running XP (a bloatware hog compared to Win98) will not be able to handle Vista as it requires even more memory, RAM, etc.!