Vista audio question: No input volume controls in Vista?

Well I have to say I've been using a Mac Mini for the last 2 weeks and it has been bliss.  Every thing just works. Unplug a monitor and plutg in new one and it just works.  No idiotic messing around with settings.  It just works.

And I have to tell you going back to my PC with Vista and having all these annoying problems when everything just works on the Mac makes me very, very sad for Microsoft. I've always thought of Macs as little toys, pretend computers, but now I know... they work.  Unlike Vista.  And they don't force us to buy their POS OS, Vista, just so they can charge us to downgrade to the OS we want, XP.

I'm a .Net developer and I've just about decided to switch to Mac's for development because Microsoft just hates us so much. They charge me $2,500 a year for the honor of developing for Microsoft but they keep stealing features away from me every year.  Just 4 years ago my $2,500 bucks got me everything Microsoft made so I could do honest testing.  Now they send me extra bills trying to trick me into paying more, then when I refuse to pay the fake bill they cancel my VALID PAYED FOR ACCOUNTS!!!

Yeah so sorry but I'm going to have to say goodbye to Microsoft. Vista is a nightmare and that idiotic Mohave commercial only angers us that have been force to use this POS.  They show some moron that doesn't actuall get to USE Vista and they say, "Oh, that looks pretty. Vista is the bestest ever! You're just too stupid to realize it!" Yeah, and it doesn't work for poo.