Quoting Thrax

A minor increase in RAM requirements is to be expected. Quintupling the at-boot memory footprint is absurd.

Vista is Windows XP Service Pack 3 with a bunch of useless crap and the DRM PLUS! pack.

I am glad the newer version uses half the memory the last version did. 450+\-MB vs 900MB+

I'll be trying to move into Linux, but it ain't gonna happen. Too many programs I depend on require MS and I paid too much for them to switch to a free variant I have no time in learning.