Agreed. We installed Vista on one computer when it came out and I played around with its photo editing. What a waste of time! I get the equivalent "features" when I upload photos to be printed at Sam's or Costco. I was pretty ticked that Microsoft considered this to be an adequate replacement for DIS.

I have been playing around with GIMP (it's free), but I still mostly prefer DIS. GIMP has better shadow management, so that's nice for digiscrapping. I also like the way I can open and use .PSD templates in GIMP, but DIS is way better for quick photo editing. I would like to be competent in the replacement software before DIS stops working and I'm up a creek. I figure I have quite a few more years of happy DIP/DISing ahead of me before it won't work with a newer operating system.

Come to think of it, I should have tried installing it on the Vista computer. The whole family hated it so thoroughly that we wiped the hard drive and started over with Windows XP, which means I can't try that now. DIS might work just fine in Vista.