Gaah!!! (Virtual PC Rant)

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So, I have precisely this problem. In that, installing virtual PC kills networking dead on Vista x64. Now I'll grant you, that problem has been reported on the connect site for the Workflow Foundation, so it's hardly the correct place. But there is no connect site for VPC now, the beta is closed. And there appears to be only a forum there anyway.

 

It's frustrating to the point of apopletic rage, and the fact there's no feedback route, and I'm not the only person with this problem just makes the whole thing so much worse.

 

I've always regarded MS relatively kindly, probably because of my obtuse manner of doing the exact opposite of everyone around me. But over the last few days is the closest I've come to physically damaging my PC over software problems. I'm seriously considering moving Apple.

 

It's not just this though, at the moment I have the following issues:

Vista x64 machine won't go to sleep or hibernate, by itself or when I tell it.

The aforementioned VPC networking problem.

Expression blend is PAINFULLY slow inside a VPC.

The laptop won't resume from sleep reliably, which is even more irritating when using hybrid sleep and it turns on, stores the hibernation file and remains on until the battery dies or the end of time. (Depending on whether it's plugged in.)

 

Anyway, I'm going to blow things up, because at least games work, most of the time.

 

Plus numerous other things which aren't with microsoft products.

 

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