I say that because I have had nothing but problems with Vista for over a year on both my system and customers systems. On any given computer XP will run faster than Vista. XP can be tweaked to a much higher degree than Vista. There is more software that works well with XP than Vista. There are more drivers avilable for more products for XP than Vista. Vista is more expensive than XP. Xp is less buggy than Vista. Ect, ect.