In one ear, out the other

So today I installed Windows Vista on my grandpa's laptop. We felt that since he's less than comfortable with a keyboard or mouse, that the speech recognition would enable him to soar.

So some observations:

• Contrary to this infamous video, the speech recognition is surprisingly accurate out of the box.
• As someone who writes Windows software, I felt like my relationship to the speech recognition to be like Nick Burns, Your Company's Computer Guy:

  Me: Start listening.
  Vista: Listening.
  Me: Open Texas Hold-'Em.
  Vista: What was that?
  Me: Open poker.
  Vista: What was that?
  Me: MOVE!!!!!! [reaches for mouse]