When you can upgrade hardware for $2000 and achieve the same result with $20,000 in development costs that makes sense but it doesn't always work that way.

I've been in situations where we had over $20 million in hardware and we have increased performance or scalability by 50% with no additional hardware. In this case it was not even close when comparing the cost of hardware, licensing, and additional administrator capacity to the software devleopment time.

If that's the case, when are we going to get some good drivers for Vista? I got a new PC and gave Vista an honest go. I used the drivers as shipped on the PC (tested by the manufacturer to be compatible, right?). It was crap. It was slow. It crashed during the install of Office 2007, repeatedly. I wipe XP and put the same software back on and it's quick. It never crashes.

I gave Vista an honest week and determined that it sucked.

I also installed Office 2007 and after a few days of adjusting I decided that I liked it so I'm not just anti new software.

It's an Escape. Its as much of a truck as a mini van is. Out of the factory the hybrid version gets 34mpg in town and 31mph on the highway.