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you mention they buy what is available in the shops. That is correct and that highlights the worst part of the PC industry. OEMs like Dell PC world and others should configure machines to work properly

It is not M$hqs fault that a system could ship running Vista basic and only have 512 meg of ram is it? its the fault of the OEM

The system builder as you say should configure his machine correctly for the software he/she is going to run and doing that with Vista I found easy. I sold many machine with Vista and all my customers have been happy so none of them will agree with the sheep