MS Vista UK Price

Though I am trying out a vertion of Linux called Unbuntu which is the first one I have been able to install and work, it even has the advantage of being about to select the applications that you want and the system will install them, sort of like installing MS Windows modules.

Anyway, the reason for looking at it is that I cannot see that I will be able to afford the VISTA cost for my PC and Laptop. In the past I have bought my computers from Novatech, who included a proper MicroSoft O/S, though for XP it was a cut down recovery disk. In the leaflet provided, it says if you have a problem, and have a full XP disk you can use 'Recovery Console' if a Novatech Recovery disk you have to format and start again. I feel a lot of the MS advertising was about recovering your system. Now I find some, who knows maybe all computer suppliers, do not even provide a disk, you have to remember to copy it off your system when setting it up. What if you disk or copying software fails, no recovery disk?. So perhaps you go for a Full Vista and pay double the USA price. There is a Number 10 Petition which you maybe interested in, unless you are one of those great people who program for Unbuntu Mozilla or OpenOffice you are making the software able to be used by more people each year. Ian