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"Because reviewers said the same thing about Windows XP back in 2001. Reviewers hated the Luna desktop and new interface, but actual users loved it. Reviewers were wrong then, and they are wrong now."

Yup.
There are plenty of Microsoft-hating clowns out there, who are ever ready to trash anything that comes from Microsoft, sight unseen.
Shoot from the hip so to speak.
Like you, I remember plenty of attacks on XP from the Mac sites, Linux sites, anarchist sites etc when XP was launched.
XP went on to become the highest selling operating system in history despite all that.
There is no question Vista is going to go on to become the highest selling operating system ever.
The regular snipping and snarling from the Apple fanboys and the open source Microsoft haters is not going to make the slightest difference to Vista sales.

There is no question Vista is going to go on to become the highest selling operating system ever.

Doubt it! Vista is the ME of XP. Theres nothing in it that makes an upgrade appealing enough to spend $199! I don't think people are going to want to risk buying Vista after remembering the nightmare of XP's first release and all the SP's they had to go through to secure it.

I'm not a Microsoft hater (except for ME-I really hated that piece of crap), but I won't be running out to upgrade. I'm happy with XP right now. I'm tired of getting everything tweaked just the way I want it and then having MS want me to do it all over again with a new OS.