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Do not, I repeat, DO NOT run out and buy a copy of Windows VISTA come home and install it on your problem free XP computer You will regret it! First of all it is not even made for your computer; it's made for computers that are still on the drawing boards.

The Killer App' in PC's today is video. The Net is full of it -YouTube, MySpace, Facebook and their imitators, along with more and more TV shows, music, humor and personal videos and what may become the future of home motion picture viewing downloading DVD's.

Think about this - After naming their products with numbers for years (3.1, 95, 98, Millennium) and the nonsensical XP why has Microsoft suddenly changed to an actual word VISTA? Duh!

Unfortunately quality video takes a humungous amount of computer power Faster processors, more memory and gigantic hard drives to store it all. And XP, designed many years ago, simply can't cut it, so Microsoft had to make a quantum leap to stay ahead of the game.

Believe me, the screams, tears, moans and groans have come before -Windows 3.1 ran like a raped ape on DOS computers, Windows 95 was a slug on 3.1 computers and XP was a dog on 98 computers, plus dozens of programs and hardware items had to be shipped to the landfill (now, hopefully, the recycler) before the bloodbath ended. Vista is the same story (Printers and scanners are particularly hard hit this time around.)

One of the most annoying things that Bill and the Boys tend to do is change things for no reason. It must cause the loss of millions of productive man hours, but they keep doing it Names of popular items and processes are changed for no discernable reason whatsoever, what for 15 years was traditionally in the Control Panel is inexplicably somewhere else! Excuse my French but WTF!

Another annoyance (and there are MANY) are the icons. Microsoft is promoting them as being scalable', which sort of means that you can make them bigger or smaller as need be. What good is that, you might ask? Well, the thought is that when your computer becomes your primary device for viewing video (about 5 years from now) you'll need a nice three foot by five foot HiDef plasma screen to see everything on. And those little 32 x 32 pixels icons will be darn hard to see then, but 256 x 256 pixels will work just fine.

Okay, if you're a hard headed SOB and insist on trying VISTA as soon as possible I'll share a little trick I learned years ago about working into a new operating system Do it on a secondary computer, not on your

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