I haven't been able to install Windows Vista Service Pack 1. There.  I said it.  I've had access to the SP1 "release bits" for ages as you might suspect and I haven't been able to install it on my production machine and I'm incredibly bitter about it because my coworkers drool over the i...

Quietly I've been suffering through an experience with Windows Vista on my laptop.  I got my laptop, a HP/Compaq nc8430, in October 2006 and had been running Vista on it since then.  In the early days, I used a pre-release version of vista, but I switched to the generally-released (RTM) ve...