Who's defending vista? I'm sure not. I just want a tearing-free environment. I'd like to watch video clips on web pages without tearing. I'd like to be able to move windows around without it tasking the main cpu. Vista is a horrible resource hog--simply awful, and Microsoft really has no excuse.

That toyd project looks interesting. Very interesting.

Yeah, but there's no way to get Aero without Vista, and I'm definitely not willing to fork out the type of money they want for a version with Aero--in addition to compatibility issues and DRM garbage that Vista offers. I was mainly referring to it for ReactOS--if they were able to move the processes...

The biggest thing for me is image tearing. I can't stand it. It interferes in being able to read text when it's scrolling, it makes video clips look like crap--it just looks awful. I don't really care about eye candy--I don't need or want any special animations--I just want vsync and it'd be nice if...