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If all they need to do is read email and browse some sites, then they don't need Vista in the first place. Which is entirely my point: if older versions of Windows get those particular low-intensity tasks done, why then should Vista be intentionally hobbled in order to appease that particular crowd? It makes no sense.

Vista requiring some people to upgrade is not a bad thing.

The average person (and some 70%+ of computer users) doesn't need the "latest and greatest" hardware or OS. Yet the marketing will convince lots of folks they need Vista - and then the new hardware it takes to run it. MS will actually fix it's sales numbers by the many retail copies they will sell, then when those folks cannot use Vista on their old hardware, will then get to count the additional license that will be OEM with their new hardware... kind of a way to double dip the sales figures/installed figures. It's a fraud.

And as an off the trail fact...many of the people who buy a new machine (but in reality have no need for the latest hardware) are convinced that it was a good purchase because they do notice an increase in performance, when in reality - it is because their old machine had grown so slow because of spyware/virii/bloat/full HD/etc. Regular maintenance and security isn't followed by a scary percentage of users.