"I think Microsoft owes me a FREE upgrade to their next OS when it releases in 5+ years."

JFYI, 2009 is only -ONE- year away.

Oh yes, having [hypothetically] spent more than NZ$600 on this thing a year ago they now give me language packs. Bonus!
Funny, I thought that any international OS from a multinational company would have had that as part of the original release. 
Oh silly me! 
Some people call it ME squared? They're too generous.
I'll stick with XP for now. Hey, it took me until last year to upgrade to that. 
Figure I'll stick with it until 2012. After that the world ends anyway , doesn't it????

The absolute very first thing I do on a new Windows installation I will be personally using is to search for *.wav in the Windows directory tree and delete the whole lot. Just to be sure the awful sound schemes will not later be resurrected by an evil application to hurt my ears.

As an apology from Microsoft for the Extras goof and for the amount that I paid for my Vista Ultimate edition with both the 32 bit and 64 bit disks inside I think Microsoft owes me a FREE upgrade to their next OS when it releases in 5+ years.

Can you say "train wreck" ?
It's like those YouTube videos in slow motion that show a car on a track and an incoming train.
And it lasts forever before the impact.
Well we're still before the impact, I think. Vista is not yet done with dragging Ballmer down, and MS along with it.
I just wonder if the impact will be worth the wait.