Computing Is Hell (With Vista)
A story posted in
ComputerWorld serves to back up what I've been warning you about with the latest Microsoft OS known as Vista.
Don't upgrade to Vista !
If Vista was a car, you'd never get it out of your driveway unless you had your mechanic sitting in the passenger seat and only if he had all his bloody tools in the back seat.
Bill Gates and his merry men should all be hunted down and tied to a pole and left for the Linux thingies to slurp them to death.
A bug in Windows Vista's built-in antipiracy technology is telling some users that they need to reactivate the operating system after they install new device drivers or run newly installed software.
"You may be prompted to activate Windows Vista on a computer on which Windows Vista activation was not previously required," Microsoft said in a support document last updated Feb. 15. "Although this problem rarely occurs, it may occur during typical use of a Windows Vista-based computer. For example, this problem may occur under one or more of the following conditions: You install a device driver, you install a program, you run a new program, you remove a program."
One Vista user commenting on Microsoft's Windows Vista Validation Issues support forum reported that he ran into the bug after he had updated his PC's BIOS.
Vista must be activated within 30 days of its first use, or else it drops into what Microsoft calls a "reduced functionality" mode -- a crippled condition in which only the operating system's Web browser works, and then for only an hour at a time.
