Hee hee...Nice to be quoted.
Anyway, I did download the Open Office, but have not really played with it yet. First glance, it does look like a quite pleasant working area. Strangely, the text on the laptop screen at 1280 looks clearer than Word. I'll try swapping fonts to see if this is just an illusion.
I'm still curious about the HP running with the full save menu, while the Sony won't. But it's just that, curiosity.
After hours of looking round Vista, I don't feel quite so lost; like getting to know a big town, but to get to know it properly, I'd have to start again, with notebook and sharp pencil and perhaps even a Dumbo's guide to Vista. It would be interesting, but just more time that I'm not writing.
One thing that popped up with Vista, was Corals...erm, Photo / Paint Pro ???? Something like that. I toyed with it for a while, and found it fun, before being warned that I had just so many days left before it would become a mas of detritus on my disc. Well software people, if you want to P s your customers off, don't tell them it's a 'purchase or else' deal, until they have unloaded it. Having said this, to have the paint on a brush run out gradually, and see colours mixing like oilpaints so realistically, was an eye opener.
Another thing, A lot of MS updates I notice, seemed to be aimed at the Office suite. I hope that now I stripped the (unopened) suite off the disc, that these updates will stop. Anyone know if that's the case...I mean, they're updating a packed program as it is, I wouldn't put it past them to update a program that isn't there at all.