As Paul says each to his own but when I changed over from my PC to a laptop it came with Vista and although I had heard negatives on this o.s. I decided to stick with it, however my old H.P. printer would not cooperate and even Dell reps. could not find new drivers and so I had to accept the situation and bite the bullet and invest in a new printer. I went for the Canon MP610 multi type and must say I dont regret it, good quality photo printing , good copying, good all round really