I want it faster , Most definitely customization stop trying to tell us how to interact with the operating system, this was a major complaint in the beta's of Vista and IE 7 now that beat 2 of IE 8 has shipped it is frustrating to see Microsoft still is insisting on choosing for us. Having survived the beta's of Vista it still looks like Microsoft is still being Microsoft, pretenting that your listening but still doing what you want.

Some sort of guarantee of product life - when I bought my new laptop I had a choice of a Vista or XP model. At that time no announcements had been made about when XP would stop being sold ,etc. However, I chose the Vista model on the basis that it's the newer operating system and therefore would have longer product support than XP.

I'm not a believer in buying a new operating system for an existing PC (that's what free Linux distros are for - my desktop was a Millennium machine but has long since moved to regularly updated Ubuntu).

There's currently a dilemma for users like myself who expect our PCs to last. Do I become an early adopter (with all the problems of running what is effectively a Beta operating system full of glitches and lacking drivers for my printer, scanner, mobile phone, etc.) or do i wait a year or two and pay the same price for an operating system which now has a shorter product life.

It's the same price bit which is galling - if i buy a car which is likely to be replaced with a newer model soon i'll get it cheaper but they won't stop making parts for it when it's a few years old. Windows will charge me the same price regardless of how long the product has been on the market and then they'll stop supporting it a few years later.

Either decrease the price as the OS ages or, and here's a great idea: rent the operating system to me. if I hate it I'll stop paying the fee and install an alternative. if i regret my choice of alternative I'll come back. i feel no great desire to own my software, a monthly fee for updates and support on the back of a free OS makes more sense.

Totally agree about too many flavors. As I see it, there should be only one, and it should come with all available options. Let us tell Windows during setup what type of environment it will be used in and what Windows applications will be needed. A true "Custom Install".

As for pricing, I think it's time that Microsoft gave something back to the world that made them wealthy beyond belief. Charge a nominal fee for the new OS, maybe something like $30 for an upgrade and $50 for a full version. If you make a good product and price it reasonably, then people will use it with a feeling of confidence in your company and its products. Many Windows users do NOT have that feeling right now.

For someone that had never used a PC before, Vista's UI wasn't that daunting. For the millions of us that have used it for many years, though, it was a nightmare. While I, for one, was delighted to see the Device Manager finally get its own Control Panel entry, I was appalled that Add or Remove Programs, a Windows stalwart, was renamed to Programs and Features, for no apparent reason. Please, Microsoft, put that back! UI changes like that for the sake of change are one of the things that drive many of us absolutely nuts.

And finally, and this doesn't necessarily apply to just Vista and Windows 7, please understand that a significant number of Windows users do not want to use Internet Explorer. Ever. Period. It seems to me that requiring its use to update the OS is a clear antitrust violation. Please allow us to use non-IE browsers for Windows Update, or better still, make it its own program again, not just a browser plugin for IE only.

One of the most ennoying matters with Vista that there is no way to define the folder option settings for the explorer windows in a way that Vista remembers the settings. Regardless what you set, they come back at random.