lol....thanks...(i think)
/way Way WAY off topic...but:
Well, it all boiled down to my decision to go laptop-only and timing.
The decision to go only laptop i made for personal and professional reasons. Because of that I decided on going with HP because I liked their form factor the best. At the time, Vista was out and being highly promoted by vendors, and HP said that while u *could* specially request WinXP, they did not support my model of laptop's hardware configuration with it.
So I went Vista because I had really only been using my PC for work/programming/email/office type of stuff and I figured they couldn't screw that up *too* badly...months later i decided to try looking for a free MMORPG and stumbled across Fiesta...all was fine until the dreaded SP1 x(
/slightly back on topic
somewhat in Microsoft's/VistaSP1's defense...being in the software dev industry, I know that *all* these dev shops that create Windows products (C#, VB, DirectX, etc...) had developer versions of SP1 MONTHS before it was released to the public.
Why did they not do better trials & tests? Why do they not have a willing beta user-base? Why am I having to deal with this at all? Certainly somethings slip through the cracks, but this seems too big and too wide spread to possibly have gone undetected through even a half-assed attempt at acceptance testing. /rant