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Vista Service Pack One Almost Here
arogier writes "After numerous delays and an actual release reversal, the official release date for Vista service pack one has been set for Tuesday, March 18th on Windows Update and Microsoft Downloads. It will be released as an automatic update on April 18th. 'It's unclear so far how a February snafu will affect SP1's roll-out. Last month, after Microsoft pushed a pair of prerequisite patches to users, some reported that their machines refused to finish installing one of the fixes, then went into an endless series of reboots. Several days later, Microsoft pulled the update from automatic delivery, said it was working on a solution and promised it would "make the update available again shortly after we address the issue."' It would be a good time for those planning to adopt early to perform requisite backups and locate their restore media."
Why don't we skip this service thing and jump straight to the next major operating system, Excalibur? By then, they will decide to use the door, rather than the window, as a metaphor for what you see on the display. Doors Excalibur will be such an improvement in terms of usability. Its biggest feature will be a talking thumb tack that will detect when you're in a hurry to get something printed out or some other simple task, and cause the operating system to slow down, crash, reboot a zillion times, grind the hard drive until the platter is covered in scratches, discover a sudden incompatibility with your printer, or mouse, or your power cable, and just basically do everything it can to prevent you from printing that thing out. And if you try to transfer it over the network, voila! The network doesn't work! Try to put it on a floppy? Bam! The floppy drive can't seem to recognize any disk anymore! Burn it to optical media? It will burn half the file on purpose, inserting errors in random places, and then fail the burn so the disc can't be used anywhere!! And just when you are so enraged that you're about to commit suicide, it will delete the file, overwrite it with random data 10,000 times to make sure you can't retrieve it, and go, "Nah nah nah nah nah!" However, the moment this thumb tack detects that it's too late to print that document out, that its purpose has become obsolete, that you don't need it anymore, poof! It will suddenly pop out of the printer looking all shiny and glossy.
Doors Excalibur. Because you should have gotten a Mac.