Try Vista - maybe

I have my brand new shining computer with Vista. Dell delivered it last week. It has been hell. Nothing works:

We have three printers networked.

• One old HP for which there is not and never will be a driver for Vista.
• One relatively new HP deskjet for which there is a local printer driver but it seems no network printer driver. I can just about get this working by pretending it is a local printer, but creating a port which point to a network address. Thanks to someone in a forum somewhere who provided this workaround after about half a day.
• A Minolta colour laser that just works (do we see the beginning of a pattern here).

I also got Outlook 2007. The email didn't work at all. After another half a day we found that you needed to disable some TCP framing or something. It involved copying a horrendous instruction into the prompt as administrator. Not for the faint hearted but it worked.

Trying to get a dual monitor arrangement wasn't fun either - another whole day at least - and another story.