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Hi I liked the article. I've enjoyed my Vista experience for nearly a year now on a new HP dv9000t notebook. It's been working well except for a few minor things.

The secret to this success has been by not having my computer connected to anything. No internet, network, as many services turned off as possible, and of course all hardware matched from the start. I fell for the sales hype but really went with it for the intel T7200 chip.

I use a nice soundcard (external) via the firewire connection and as long as I have the ASIO driver on before boot-up I think the DRM stuff is either bypassed or not engaged in some way.

I use this laptop a lot (many hours) in doing audio encoding work which goes almost twice as fast as my XP desktop. So for some people, some applications it's ok.

I have no interest in watching premium content DVDs on laptop so at first wondered what all the fuss was about. I read thru this website for some really great information and recommend it to you. It is 486 comments long from IT pro guys with some MS input as well. It's really a very long read but the quality of the posting is excellent.

Windows Vista Content Protection - Twenty Questions (and Answers)

http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2007/01/20/windows-vista-content-protection-twenty-questions-and-answers.aspx

One of the IT guys posted a link to an emerging (almost ready for prime-time) Windows OS replacement. Open source NT build from the ground up allowing you to use your System32 DLLs. Quite interesting total MS replacement. I'd love to read your comments about that. See it here at:

http://www.reactos.org/en/index.html