[ardit33]

A little over a year ago, my sister bought a HP laptop (1.8gh, 512mb ram), with Windows XP, but with the option to upgrade to Vista for $15 when it came out.

Few months down the line, I bought a faster laptop for my parents, and realised how aweful Vista was. I still regret not having wiped it out, and just installed XP on it.

Then my sister asked me about upgrading ther laptop. That laptop was fast enough for XP, but not for Vista. Imagine, installing Vista limited to it. A laptop that was adeguately fast and decent for XP, it would have been dog slow for Vista, with very bad user interface and the awkwardnes of a really bad Operating system. My sister whould have been duped badly if I hadn't told her not to "updgrade" her computer.

Image all those people that bought Vista for $150+ as an upgrade from XP, maybe paid a $50 installation fee to the local BestBuy, and realise they just spent a lot of money in a very inferior product.