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Wow, even ol’ Steve thinks Vista is a piece of crap. It’s never a good sign when a released product is referred to as a ‘work in progress’. I guess Windows ME now has competition for biggest piece of crap operating system ever released.

Does Vista get better or worse if you run it on a Mac?

Steve Ballmer has admitted that Vista is “a work in progress”, and admitted the company has to learn lessons from its release. Speaking at the Most Valuable Professional Global Summit in Seattle, Ballmer resisted calls for a slimmed down Windows 7: “Vista is bigger than XP and it’s gonna stay bigger than XP. We have to make sure it doesn’t get bigger still.”

Ballmer describes Vista as “work in progress”

It’s been a comedy of errors this past week. I was first plagued with the problem of having two video cards in my computer when I tried to reinstall Windows which took almost two days to isolate and then fix. Now, my ISP decided to randomly make some change to my account that prevented me from connecting! The server is still running because it has a static IP address and doesn’t need any configuration information from a provider. However, all the other machines do. I won’t go into the Internet trickery involved but home machines need to keep “validating” against the ISP. They messed up my account so my computers couldn’t validate.

After two days the problem is now fixed. At least the server stayed running.

Looks like I’m working off some bad Karma this week…

On side note I have been waging my own battle. After making one small update to Windows, I crashed the whole thing. Won’t boot, goes to a blue screen. Of course, I have experience in these matters and figured I would have things back up and running in no time. Well, that’s what I said last night anyway.

Using one of my other machines as a support vehicle, I spent the day installing and reinstalling and reinstalling again, trying to get this machine back up and running. It really wasn’t that big of a blunder so I didn’t understand why I couldn’t salvage the machine. I really thought I’d broken something and was getting ready to go in with paddles and screwdriver blazing!

Then it hit me. The thunderbolt. The light bulb. The epiphany.

I have two video cards in this system, which has been working fine for months. Well, just because it works with Windows running, doesn’t mean you can install it that way. So after wasting an entire day and hacking away at everything but the real problem, I removed the second video card and fixed the machine. It took me almost 24 hours to accomplish 40 minutes worth of work… Oh well, at least Windows is fast again!

But make no mistake, tomorrow, that card is going back in!

Damnable computers…