Manny -- the delay in responding is because we don't have a definitive answer yet. We are currently doing testing with Vista. We're investigating various Vista issues and determining if we might want to offer a patched version that could offer improved performance under Vista.

My personal opinion is that I would stay clear of a new OS for about 6 months -- if you look at the history of Win XP, Win 2k, Win98, and Win95, you see that there are a range of issues when an OS is first rolled out. The "early adopters" deal with identifying the problems and then 6+ months later, things start to get more stable. I have no reason to expect anything different with Vista -- at least not anything better. However, there already have been a wide range of reports about various compatibility problems with Vista, so I suspect that Vista may prove to be a bit more troublesome in the early stages than some of its predecessors.

We will do what we can at InertiaSoft and Horizon/Hangar9 to make the transition to Vista easy for our customers, but my personal advice is to wait on purchasing Vista, whether it's for FS One, another RC sim, or even just basic computing. That's just my opinion, however. Everyone should decide for themselves.

In any case, we'll provide more info on Vista as it becomes available. Sorry I couldn't provide a more definitive answer at this point, but remember that we need to test Vista with a wide range of PCs to have confidence that things should run smoothly in most circumstances.