How many people in this room have had big time problems with Vista? I am pretty sure the number is HUGE. Problems are all over the board. Network discovery issues, installation issues, service pack installation issues and the list goes on.
I came across an issue where, when I clicked “Turn Windows features on or off” I would just get a blank popup. Initially I thought it might be a permission issue. But after some research I found out that there were some registry changes suggested which would help solve those problems in some cases. In my case it did not work and the only solution was to reinstall Vista again.
So, I decided to reinstall Vista and there was more “fun” in store for me there. My vista installation was fine but then when it started installing the updates things started going awry again. Everytime it would install some updates and restart and then try to repair something. This went on for more than four hours. After that I decided to install the service pack 1 directly and then things started to stabilize. Later I had network discovery issues all over again which after couple of hours solved by itself.
All in all I spent about one day just installing vista. For a product that had been in development since years I expected more out of it. My initial experience with Vista has made me believe that it is still a work in progress and it will take some more patches for the OS to stabilize. Quite disappointing to say the least.
