Well it was bound to happen.  Everyone in my office had made the switch back, I was the last holdout.  I finally had it with Vista! 

I really wanted to like it, I really did.  It looked sharp... hmm, come to think of it, that's all I can really say about it.  I looked sharp.  But in the end, after installing some updates, it became unstable and I failed to figure out what the cause was.  Even with uninstalling said updates, it still randomly spiked the cpu to 100% for 5 or so minutes at a time, leaving me helpless to do any work.

So, before I left work yesterday I repartinioned my C:\ drive and reinstalled XP.  Up until 11pm last night I was trying to get my machine back to par for work.  I have to admit, after making the switch from XP to Vista then back to XP, I do notice that XP is considerably faster.  I guess making it look "sharp" had it's disadvantages.

Quick note to Microsoft: WTF MAN!  How could you screw up an OS so badly?  I want Vista, but I want it STABLE.  I don't want to have to cross my fingers before installing updates as I had to ever since I installed it.  And yes, I have had to uninstall updates in the past.