Off the record - Craig Box

To follow up to my previous post, Vista Beta 2 still has my pet bug - if you assign a network drive an early letter (such as E or F) , and then plug in a removable drive, it will often get allocated a letter that is already in use.

Vista is also near impossible to use if you're in 16 colour mode, which the installer was, because it didn't correctly detect the onboard Intel video. After getting that fixed, the next order of business was getting Bon Echo (the Firefox 2 alpha) and Office 2007 Beta 2 installed.

If someone spent a while making OpenOffice.org feel and operate a bit more like, say Office XP, as it stands on Windows today, then it would be a real killer application (unless, of course, Google cuts everyones lunch). However, I really don't think that people are going to want Office 2007, when it changes the interface so much from what they've learnt to tolerate. I couldn't even find the File menu for four minutes! I hope there is a "make this feel like Office XP/2003" option, as lots of people I know don't even want to know about the newfangled Windows XP (green/two panel) start menu.

This is a simple one, and I only hope it is fixed in Vista (I haven't yet got it installed on a machine; the key that MSDN gave me was a 'home edition' key. I assume I'd rather have an Ultimate Edition so I can run Aero? Please update me if I am wrong here).

Why is it, when I have a mounted network drive F, and local disks C, D and E, and I insert a piece of removable media, such that it gets mounted on drive letter F, does it mount it anyway, and not pay attention to the fact that the drive letter is in use?

You plug your digital camera in and then you can't use it until you unmount your F: drive (which you don't think to do) or you change which drive letters it uses in compmgmt.msc (which you don't KNOW to do). So into your IT professional it comes...