Yes, this is about Vista – Microsoft's entry in the "Worst Software Contest" (in my humble opinion) as far as I can tell. From the problems reported by friends, business associates and my students, it's a bust. Now, even in the trade press, it's getting panned some more.
Writing in "eWeek", Lawrence Walsh says "It (Vista) did not fail for not trying." Maybe they tried too hard, because major corporations stayed away from Vista in droves. Even Microsoft has sort of admitted a problem, in that after calling a "drop dead" date for XP (which still works), they had so much flack, they have extended the date to May 31, 2009 for system installers and other manufacturers.
Walsh continues by saying, "Two years on, Vista is nothing short of an incompressible failure". Know what I have help people with, it's a "pain" – bigtime. You can read the whole article yourself – its called "Ode to Broken Windows".