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I won't buy Vista.

There's lots of good reasons why. Good, solid, valid reasons. And most of all they're *my* reasons. I don't want it, I don't like it and I don't have to have it.

Microsoft of course is pissed about this because I'm not in a minority. Vista, since its launch, has sucked. It's been made fun of, and deservedly so.

So what's an almighty software giant like Microsoft to do?

Simple. Try and use their clout in other markets to force people to change.

What people?... Well gamers.

When I picked up a copy of Halo 2 for the PC I discovered this abusive campaign under the guise of "Games for Windows". In essence it was "either you play this game (which was released a stupid amount of time after the xbox version) on *our* terms or you don't play it at all." Basically a variant of the infantile: "Well either we play with my toys my way - or you can all just go home."

(Note that this is especially amusing since Microsoft has just recently enabled a path to "downgrade" to XP - admitting that yeah, Vista really does blow dead dogs.)

Honestly you think they'd know better. There isn't a more stubborn, truculent, mulish group than PC gamers. Numbers decimated by console offerings, we remain the few, the dedicated, the unyielding. Trying to lead us along by waving bright, shiny objects, such as Bioshock for example, simply isn't enough to make us want to renovate our precious computers with Vista filth.

As bad as it seems, in fact they did me a favor. I'd been torn between trying ET: Quake Wars or Halo 2. Now I didn't have to decide at all...