Just Say No to Vista

I just have to say this. If you're going to use the Windows Vista operating system (yes, with Service Pack 1), proceed at your own risk.

Having recently purchased a PC (a respectable HP Pavilion from Costco) with the Windows Vista Home Premium operating system, I have found that the system shuts itself down and restarts randomly. This has happened twice in three days - once while we were doing absolutely nothing and once while we were in the middle of modifying an important QuickBooks file! If you peruse the internet for solutions to this evidently wide-spread problem, you will see a number of skeptical responses in the vein of "surely you were doing something wrong when this happened" or "surely you installed something you shouldn't have to cause this to happen" or "surely you caused your computer to overheat to cause this to happen", etc. I have read enough now to understand that this problem is, in my opinion, a problem with the Vista operating system and not a problem with the user. We all hope that the problem has some kind of logical cause and can be fixed by some logical action. I no longer believe that this is so. The problem is likely complex enough that Microsoft cannot really effectively debug or fix it. So we, the lucky end users, are stuck with an unreliable operating system. Lucky us.

All I can say is use a Mac for as many tasks as you can and use the PC only when you have to.