Well, I'm not too impressed with Vista either. I bought a desktop for my som so that she could play Diablo 2 with his sister over the network only to find that the software is broken on Vista. If that wasn't bad enough, my son then wated to install another game on his machine only to get a "does not work with Vista" message. Fortunately for me, I had an older and similar version of the same tower and managed to get it to take my OEM WindowsXP disk with no validation problems (However, Vista did it's best to refuse to allow XP to be installed and I finally used an only Win98 CD to give me access to DOS in order to format Vista's lame ass out of existance!).
Today I took delivery of a Gateway laptop. After strating it up and going through the usual mall-ware setup crap and never ending "click to accept" screens I was told that my Windows Vista Premium code was not valid and to reenter it. I renentered the code off the sticker and went online to validate only to be told that it was not a genuine Vista installation. One of the options online support - that failed. Then I tried the telephoen support and spent 10 minutes with an automated service to get a confirmation number which didn't work. Then I got live tech support from Microsoft (some Indian chap... from India!) who asked me all sorts of questions about my ownership of the machine before finally giving me a endless stream of numbers to typing in. Afetr rebooting I got a message saying it wasn't genuine and some features would be disabled. I tried to vaidate it online and was told that it was an invalid copy and I should contact Microsoft. I rebooted again to find the "non genuine" message, revalidated online and this time I was told everything was OK. Rebooted one more time and everything was rosy!!!
Sheesh, I'm not looking forward to doing a reinstallion on this machine!
