I saw your post on Thomashawk's blog. I'm a Vista owner now, and feel it's pretty much a dog, too. Which is a sad thing to say about MS's new OS - I'd had really high expectations.
OSX looks like a great alternative.
We also run an Ubuntu box, which is perfect for web apps. XP runs all my games and production software just fine. Why vista, again?
Actually Mathewi, you're wrong......kind of. Your point-by-point refutation is not relevant.....the poster was illuminated the litmus test of copyright infringement...which are all of the points taken as a whole. That you feel each one is somehow individually irrelevant is beside the point: they're taken as a whole when being considered by a court.
Here's a more nuanced explanation direct from the US Copyright office: