Windows Vista has been around for a little while now, but I still don't recommend it to any of my customers unless they have a compelling reason to need it. So far, nobody has found a compelling reason.

Vista managed to make an appearance in Wired magazines Top 10 Heartbreaking Gadgets of 2007 due to it's compatibility problems and poor ( I would use the term abysmal) performance.

The debate over which browser provides a better internet surfing experience has raged for many years and the answer for many is still unclear. The issue really comes down to what you want from the software, rather than which is "better" in an absolute sense and thus I have compiled this list of my reasons for choosing Firefox over Internet Explorer.

Here's an interesting one. I recently had to upgrade a few Server 2000 machines to Server 2003 R2. We were also replacing the hard disks which made backup easy.

We hit a problem when trying to promote the Server 2003 R2 machine to become a domain controller. After running ADPREP from the Server 2003 disk (as recommended) the promotion still failed. Finally after further investigation it seems that you need to run ADPREP from disk 2 of the Server 2003 disk set, which contains a slightly newer version of ADPREP.