Quote - If people that make Windows applications stop doing anything that is specific to Vista I want to see what Microsoft will do!

Agreed, but unlikely to happen.  M$ can't afford for that to happen.  Plus all the vendors who are having to scratch M$ back to enable this (ATI, Nvidia, Dell, HP, etc., etc.) are going to want their share of the re-buy $'s.

M$ has already decided DX10 will be Vista-only.  At moment not much difference between DX9 and DX10 for most games, but it's an indicator...

Better to hope that enough people get pissed at M$ that they moved to Linux.  But alas, as most peeps don't install new OS's or even upgrades, until Dell, HP, etc., sell Linux-installed to home users this has little chance too.  And for reasons stated above, they'll prefer to sell a bigger faster (CPU at least ;-)) systems with Vista!

A complete Linux system, with most common drivers for any PC, Office work-a-like, GIMP, and most every other general app you'd want fits on an 800MB install CD - and execute from it.  Vista installs 800MB of code for OS (a misnomer in this case) with drivers for just the current system and 1 browser and 1 emailer!  And Office 2007 on Vista will reputedly refuse to install on less than a 1Gb of memory PC!!!

Seriously, the best hope lies with the Chinese manufacturers, that they continue to develop lower cost, simpler, Vista-incompatible boards (for use on our Linux systems), and they succeed with EVD.

But we're stuck 'cos eF shows no sign of moving Poser to Linux...  Unless VMfree turns out to run Poser7.  Perhaps all the out-dated Windows file dialogs have been removed?  And perhaps the OGL preview is compliant enough now?