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30% - 70% Windows patches might be NSA directed? Well, Heaven knows Windows has no legitimate bugs to fix . But that does help me understand something. I've been puzzled by your sig for some time since I can't say I know anyone that actually lives in fear. Now it is clearer. You probably bitch when Microsoft doesn't fix something, but are too terrified to use it when they do. That explains a lot. Especially if you aren't applying patches and get pwned.

Your views are simple: It's all a plot. Windows is complex. Complex software has bugs: The danger of complexity: More code, more bugs

I'm reasonably certain that NSA isn't behind all the bugs and all the fixes.

Windows 2000 was released with 20,000 bugs

PS - I hope you do read the response I made to your post, and watch at least the first video. You will be better informed.

Actually wasn't what is being said about Win8 identical to what was said about Vista?

I can say it's issues were the stunning lack of drivers for perfectly good peripherals,

Um, that was an XP/2K issue.

It was most definitely a Vista issue - here is a link with the exact type of issues I was having:

http://www.vistax64.com/vista-hardware-devices/120722-lack-vista-hardware-drivers.html

http://www.vistax64.com/vista-hardware-devices/6369-asuss-lack-driver-support-vista-need-wi-fi-drivers.html

This was just some of the issues. I had several good printers that were not supported. Tech service for some said they would be getting drivers out "some time", and some noted that we should just buy new printers. Had a wireless driver issue, needed to but a new external usb wireless adapter. This wasn't like trying to install Windows 8 on a 286 machine either. This was hardware bought within a couple years.

And it wasn't just my outside group. Where I worked, when we looked at switching over to Vista, it was quickly obvious that we would have to replace over half the printers, many Ethernet cards, most of the scanners, including some very expensive high speed scanners. By this time, there were many many more devices in all the offices, and the problem was many times what any XP or 2K issue could ever be.

It is not an easy sell to tell the suits they needed to replace all their computers, and most of their peripherals to allow them to do nothing more than exactly what they were doing before with what they already had been doing. We stuck with XP until Windows 7 came out some years later, and by that time depreciation on the older equipment had been realized, and driver support was better anyhow.

Actually wasn't what is being said about Win8 identical to what was said about Vista?

I can say it's issues were the stunning lack of drivers for perfectly good peripherals,

Um, that was an XP/2K issue.

It was most definitely a Vista issue - here is a link with the exact type of issues I was having:

http://www.vistax64.com/vista-hardware-devices/120722-lack-vista-hardware-drivers.html

http://www.vistax64.com/vista-hardware-devices/6369-asuss-lack-driver-support-vista-need-wi-fi-drivers.html

This was just some of the issues. I had several good printers that were not supported. Tech service for some said they would be getting drivers out "some time", and some noted that we should just buy new printers. Had a wireless driver issue, needed to but a new external usb wireless adapter. This wasn't like trying to install Windows 8 on a 286 machine either. This was hardware bought within a couple years.

And it wasn't just my outside group. Where I worked, when we looked at switching over to Vista, it was quickly obvious that we would have to replace over half the printers, many Ethernet cards, most of the scanners, including some very expensive high speed scanners. By this time, there were many many more devices in all the offices, and the problem was many times what any XP or 2K issue could ever be.

It is not an easy sell to tell the suits they needed to replace all their computers, and most of their peripherals to allow them to do nothing more than exactly what they were doing before with what they already had been doing. We stuck with XP until Windows 7 came out some years later, and by that time depreciation on the older equipment had been realized, and driver support was better anyhow.

Here's an exact example of what 91degrees points out:

Search results for 91degree's phrase

The first link returned by Google

The first link returned does not contain the phrase searched for. That is a failure state.

http://www.vistax64.com/vista-general/56926-problem-loading-xps-documents.html

Of course, you need to be more specific regarding how it breaks with Firefox installed. That link, though, is to #1 item when I googled "xps viewer firefox problems". You've just got me curious :)

That's right, the entire Vista failure was all me. I told Microsoft if they didn't give me 100 million dollars I would run around the entire Internet making millions of accounts, posing as folks in all walks of life having Vista problems, just to destroy them. Should have paid me,huh?

But seriously, it ain't like I'm the only one. In fact if you look up Vista horribly slow you'll see that Yahoo finds 2,580,000 hits for that phrase, and for Vista crashes? A whopping 52,700,000. That should tell you there is trouble in your paradise. So maybe instead of accusing someone of spreading FUD, maybe you might think about those figures. Unless you do think I managed to write all those web pages by myself, in which case Microsoft better give me my money or I will do the same to Win7. MWAHAHAHA!

That's right, the entire Vista failure was all me. I told Microsoft if they didn't give me 100 million dollars I would run around the entire Internet making millions of accounts, posing as folks in all walks of life having Vista problems, just to destroy them. Should have paid me,huh?

But seriously, it ain't like I'm the only one. In fact if you look up Vista horribly slow you'll see that Yahoo finds 2,580,000 hits for that phrase, and for Vista crashes? A whopping 52,700,000. That should tell you there is trouble in your paradise. So maybe instead of accusing someone of spreading FUD, maybe you might think about those figures. Unless you do think I managed to write all those web pages by myself, in which case Microsoft better give me my money or I will do the same to Win7. MWAHAHAHA!

I did link to the wrong mouse... mine is the "Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer USB and PS/2 compatible" which looks nearly identical to the "Intellimouse Optical". If I remember correctly the Optical is quite a bit smaller though.

Anyhoo, I'm not the only one who has had this problem http://www.vistax64.com/vista-hardware-devices/39944-intellimouse-explorer-usb-no-vista-support.html

Are you not running XP - its tiny on XP.

Vista.. well, read about it on Google:

http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1173190&SiteID=17
http://www.vistaheads.com/forums/microsoft-public-windows-vista-general/30395-what-winsxs-folder.html
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=590216&view=getnewpost
http://www.vistax64.com/vista-general/53906-what-winsxs-folder.html

Also note that Microsoft provided a special tool (VSP1CLN.exe) to remove the files replaced by SP1, its part of your SP1 install and will clean up about 2 Gb. (yep, 2GB). There are plenty of instructions on its use on the web

I tried recreating steps on my MBP but I have Vista Basic which doesn't appear to have Encrypting File System support. The machine that did this was a Dell 530 with Vista Business.

In lieu of that, this is what would happen. I would download a .mov file or would export one via Sorenson Squeeze - pretty much the only way I had Quicktime files under Windows - and without any direction or intervention on my part Vista would automatically encrypt it.. end up with the green file title.

I didn't know what the green text meant and it wasn't until I tried copying one of the Quicktime files to a USB key that Windows popped up a dialog saying the file would be copied without security/encryption(?it's been a few weeks, I forget the wording?) as the target device doesn't support it. From there, Google was my friend.

I did not have any other common media type on the computer (no mp3, wmv, avi, etc - it was a work machine) so I don't know if this was specific to Quicktime. The only thing I do know was this encryption was applied to EVERY .mov file I had on the machine and it was done without my request.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/102501-encryption-disable-enable.html
http://www.webapper.net/index.cfm/2008/1/24/Vista-Annoyance-File-Encryption-and-Apache (guessing, but looks like another random file encryption)