Well, we finally got my friends computer upgraded last Sunday. We were going to go with 8 but when he went to buy it at the store another one of his friends that works there said he would probably regret it, go with 7, so we did. He ordered it on Amazon. The clean install went well, his scanner/printer/fax machine works now and so does his DVD drive, two main things he was having a problem with. So there is one less Vista machine on the planet.