Relax: Vista is guarding the homeland.
As many a hapless computer consumer has already found out since its release, Windows Vista has proved to be a relative flop as an operating system; so much so that Dell computers had re-released Windows XP on desktop machines, to appease frustrated users. In vintage Microsoft fashion, the operating system giant is about to release Windows 7 -due out in 2010 - and preliminary reviews of the beta release are good although if you look closely Windows 7 is basically Vista with the kinks worked out. But don't take my word for it, you can downloaded it here and decide for yourself.
Imagine I sold you a car. The vehicle I sold you car had a fair amount of bells and whistles, maybe air bags, satellite radio, electronic gizmo's like seat warmers, On Star and gps system. The one caveat is that the engine only works part of the time. When you come to me to complain, I balk at first, at changing anything, but eventually acquiesce to fixing the engine. I now resell the vehicle to you and it runs.