So I believe Vista is officially available to business now? Or at least it’s very close? Well, I got a new laptop at work that is marked with one of those pimpy “Vista Qualified” stickers so I decided to download a copy from my company’s MSDN subscription to try it out. I am posting this from XP… On that laptop… Let me tell you why:

1) There is no driver support at all! I really mean this; there is 0. My graphics card (an Nvidia) showed up as having 32mb of RAM when in fact it has 512mb, dual monitor support was absolutely atrocious, and when docked I could not use USB peripherals from my docking station or the headphone jack coming from it. I tried for a day to run just a laptop with no monitors or peripherals, but that didn’t work out. I actually found the graphics drivers for Vista RC1, ran the installer and it says to me “Setup cannot continue because you’re not running Windows.” BAHAHAHA!

2) Even Microsoft doesn’t support it! They have a nifty download tool that you must use with their MSDN site, but it isn’t supported in Vista! You have to use it, they make it, it doesn’t work!

Looks like I’ll be pulling the same thing I did when XP came out; installing one year before the next version is released