Happy New Year, from Microsoft

I and hundreds of other Windows Vista beta testers awoke Jan. 1 to discover that the operating system's Media Center functionality stopped working with nary a warning, even though the Vista beta (release candidate 1) isn't set to expire until this summer.

That wouldn't be so bad if the final version of Vista were available to purchase. Looks like Andrea and I are set to miss a whole month of Heroes and Ugly Betty.