Microsoft internal video on Windows Vista SP1

 What I was laughing my ass off about this video is a few months back I was chatting with a Microsoft Employee who happens to be in Sales.  He said the almost the exact same line as the video.  He said in so many words  ”Some Enterprises did not deploy Vista because they don’t want to Adopt early but that going to be over with SP1″.  When he said it to me, I was thinking then, Man he is really drinking the Microsoft Kool-aid.  Now after watching this video I’m convinced its now a PIC line directly to the heart. I also had to bit by tongue and not ask him about all the people who have rolled back to XP. 

I used both OS X and I’m a switcher (no not to OS X, I did that already, but back to XP) but I still have one machine running Vista.  What’s even more depressing is that the machine has still not done the auto update to SP1.  I talked to another Microsoft employee who works there for a long time now but does not always give me the company line told me it will not update my computer until the issues for certain drivers on my machine have been resolved.  If I try to update SP1 on its own it will fail!  Some Service Pack!  All the more reason to stay with XP and wait for XP SP3.

I really, really wanted to to keep using Windows Vista but I tell you, I’ve had nothing but problems it’s just getting worse with each incremental update from Microsoft. Crash after crash, slow to switch to different users, takes FOREVER to login into my Domain and what a memory hog. It seem like it’s slower now then ever and file explorer keeps crashing and locking up. I actually had a blue screen of death the other day! To be honest I’ve not had one of these since Windows ME and Windows 2000.

Windows Vista on my notebook in the last month or so has stopped Visual Studio 2005 from debugging code! I’ve made no changes to VS2005, but the debugger is broken. It’s made it completely useless and has resorted me to using a Virtual PC version of Windows XP to get any work done!!   I’ll be moving back to XP when the latest Service Pack  comes. The new XP Service Pack is said to make XP just as secure as Windows Vista. Don’t even get me started on how horrible Windows Explorer 7 is! I really hope that IE 8 will fix performance and CSS compliance issues.