Hmm ok, I don’t blame you for being cynical. But XP was a vast improvement over, uhm.. Millenium Edition and 98… it looks like you will be able to scale down all the new graphical gadgets and gismos in Vista anyway. If youre a minimalist like me you’d probably use the classic view. As for paying 150-200 $ to upgrade… Im hoping against that, so we will see what the initial price is (hopefully low). If the performance of applications can be faster than what it is in XP it will be a decent upgrade