I for one noticed most people who came here before Vista's release were confused about whether or not their computer would have enough juice to make the upgrade. This was not excusive to this forum... It seems there was a general lack of information, the hardware requirements generally being buried on the Windows Vista homepage somewhere.

I guess the question is if the confusion was intentional and if they tried to squeeze more sales out of people by selling PCs which couldn't run certain features like Aero and Movie Maker.