My Vista story has little to do with me. Firstly, I do have Vista on my computer. It is on a hard drive that resides in my computer but is not plugged in, that way I'm ready to go when the pull all the suck out of it. That being said, my aunt recently bought her first home computer. Yes, dark ages and then some, moving on. I loaded all the programs she wanted on them, which included Microsoft Office for Windows Vista. About 2 weeks afterwards she gives me a phone call saying that she had made a bunch of Word files that must have gotten infected by a virus or something since she couldn't open them. I said that is impossible since she doesn't have internet and hasn't put a disc in the drive since I set it up for her, yes, dark ages. I go to her house and start investigating, low and behold, this awesome rendition of an OS, and I use that term loosely, had UNINSTALLED Office. Uninstalled to the point that I couldn't even do a system recovery back to the day that I had loaded all the programs onto the computer. It had simply vanished. All of the files were still there, they just showed up as unrecognized file types and as such were un-openable. I then proceeded to load Office back onto the computer. This has now happened 2 more times. This is simply amazing that two first-party programs would work like this. I can't even fathom the conversation that ensued with programmers after this issue came to their attention. Sorry about the long story.
Mike
