Windows 7 is good - it is better than Vista in every way (as is a pen and some paper). I would imagine Vista is no more popular than Window Me was. There is one thing that improves it still further - the image resizer powertoy thingy that was part of XP - they make a clone for 7/Vista http://imageresizer.codeplex.com/releases/view/51338. It even runs faster than Vista on same hardware so you can't really go wrong.