Why do you "microsoft" treat everyone like a criminal. You want us to embrace vista as the new o/s system, Look at the problems it's plagued with. I have 5 computer's in my house and I paid for every o/s system on them. 2 of them have vista and the others xp. For the Vista computers ones a laptop and the other a desktop for my son for x-mas. I only got this desktop for the price, I didnt feel great that it came with vista,but purchased it any way. I also got him a killer gfx card to go with it.How do you think im gonna feel when I put this card in on x-mas for him ,then all of a sudden it tells me I have 3 days to reregister the o/s . You can rest assured this will be the farthest thing on my mind on X-mas day.