After reading about Vista from the Microsoft website (www.microsoft.com/windowsvista) I came to the conclusion that Vista is a much larger update from XP than XP was from 2k/98. With the features like using a USB stick as a type of RAM and the cool looking 3D windows, they seem to have made some drastic changes to their previous versions. I'm happy to see IE taking on tabbed browsing, even though I will forever use Mozilla, and suprised to find the change in how the desktop looks. Although I haven't researched Vista anymore than what I've read on the site, I must say Vista is looking to be impressive. My only question is does Vista take advantage of the 64 bit procs?? I am currently waiting for the arrival of my new Alienware, AMD Athlon 64 FX - 60, Dual 512MB Nvidia 7900 GTX w/SLI enabled, 1GB RAM, Liquid Cooling, and all that jazz, but I'm concerned if I'll ever find a program that will take advantage of the 64 bit proc. (This is my first post so please be gentle )