The first steps on the road to a Vista upgrade were fine – Microsoft’s Vista Upgrade Advisor 4 gave my XP Media Center PC a clean bill of health. And so it should - the hardware that lets me watch and record Freeview TV, listen to music and store thousands of digital photos, while not state-of-the-art, is only 18 months old. Driven by a fast Pentium 4 processor, with lots of memory, a cavernous hard disk, a 24-bit audio system and a DVB Freeview tuner from a highly reputable manufacturer – this hardware should provide good service for a couple of years or so.