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Story: Vista shifts 20 million copies

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we count as three or four of those and we have gone back to XP

Bought a laptop retail in the States. Could only get Vista and then only Home, so 1 Vista. We then had to upgrade, not to business which is what we wanted but to Ultimate as that was the only one that was allowed via the upgrade route. 1 Ultimate. This took the money and caused the blue screen of death on the laptop meaning a rebuild to the original Home edition. Tried the upgrade again and the process took more money and racked up another copy of Ultimate and yet again resulted in the blue screen of death. Laptop was taken back to supplier who stated that a clean build of Ultimate was needed, still no option of Business, so at this stage we are on our THIRD Vista Ultimate and having a headache trying to reclaim the money. Apparently this situation is quite common over in the States at the moment.
After 3 days my user got fed up with Vista not allowing him to work. We found packages needed upgrading and were told by other package "writers" that Microsoft had responded to their complaints of excessive changes by stating that they should "do what we do and charge the customers". We have now wiped the laptop and installed XP and all is better in the world, so that is 20 mill minus our 4, I am also seriously considering revamping our packages to run under linux if I have to rewrite them anyway.

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