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Vista is turning out to be such a turd already (Windows ME level turd) that M$ is rushing ahead with the production of Vienna to find a suitable replacement so they can bury the wretched mistake that was Vista. M$ claims that Vienna will be out in two years.

You know something is bad when the parent company calls it a monumental failure. (Windows ME, Vista)

M$ issued a statement saying that Vista was an "expansion" on XP and that Vienna is the next "real" OS. Sounds like the whole ME fiasco all over again to make people desperate for XP. In short, sell something so bad that people will rush out and spend even more money to fix it.