[GiRTh]

I'm not sure your friend is giving you some good advice, to be honest. Microsoft will be supporting XP for many a year as people are reluctant to upgrade to Vista. To totally upgrade would mean that every single driver for every single application needs to be re-written. That's going to take some time. Believe me.

I hear differing report about Vista some people I speak to love it and others hate it. Upgrade but only if you want to, I don't think you're going to need to for a few years.