I disagree - you must have it implemented improperly, because it works great for us and being a 25,000+ person company we generate thousands of pages (2TB+ ) in docs a week. Many of our docs are laden with graphic and embedded objects.

just load a clean copy of XP SP3 and OOS - you are good to go.

Vista is a huge and costly flop for Microsoft, they only sold 300 million copies this year, and barely 200 million copies of Office 2007, and IE is barely 80% of the browser market at this rate they will be out of business any second now. They might as well turn off the lights and go home. However if they can hold on just long enough to release Windows 7 in 2010 then it might postpone their timely demise by a couple years at best.

If done right Windows 7 could be huge, Many large companies do an every other upgrade cycle and those XP PC are showing their age. And slot of people were scared of Vista - if this is only slightly better it could be the big one many uninformed are awaiting.