I gathered that. But I also gather that most of the people actually complaining here on the thread do so because they think everything should be free.
I pay for good software, keep it updated, buy new versions when they make sense and I never have a bit of trouble with it. I don't ~want~ root. I don't want to know how or why my computer works, I just want to drive it.
The problem is that Vista has been delayed so much that there will be very little overlap between the end of support for XP Home and the arrival of Vista. Under the current schedule, a person could buy a Dell in September and find four months later that his OS support is gone (Vista may ship OEM in October, if there are no more delays). That's just bad by anyone's standards.
I believe Microsoft will do the right thing and extend XP Home support some reasonable time into the availability of Vista.
Of course, this whole thing supports what I've always said -- stay away from XP Home.