[ Monday ]
Microsoft Vista Problems...Ongoing
Vista, the latest operating system (OS) from Microsoft, which took five years to develop, still has significant bugs. One of the most annoying, if you ignore the BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) reminiscent of Windows 98, is the crashing of Media Center Edition embedded in the Vista Home Premium OS package.
Vista seems to work just fine out of the box, when installed or pre-installed on a bare system. But start to add applications, and that is when the problems begin. Connect your peripherals, and users will most likely discover that driver upgrades are required...usually, however, new hardware needs to be purchased.
The MCE problem has been occurring for a few years now, and Microsoft attempted to address the crashing of the "ehshell.exe" in the XP Service Pack 3 release. This does nothing, however, to address the problem in Vista.
Online forums are full of complaints from exasperated Vista users, and for the MCE package, it is an additional inconvenience. TV cards and video capture cards, along with easy access to videos and photos on your PC, all can use the MCE program for television channels, recording video, etc. In XP, it was a separate program tha could be repaired by uninstalling and reinstalling it. In Vista, it is part of the OS program. No one wants to have to perform a reinstall, as it wipes your drive.
Microsoft...if you're listening...fix this broken OS, or at least give users one less reason to complain. It is, afterall, football season, and many would like to use the DVR function of MCE to record those games when away from the PC.
MM [10:37]
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