Doyle Hudgens gave me that headline as the subject of his email tonight, in which he wrote about his experience with Windows Vista:

I recently purchased a Compaq Presario notebook with Vista Home Premium installed. One of the first things I tried to do was create the restore CD/DVD since no one supplies these any more. The creation went just fine until verify. At this point I was informed on the screen that verification failed. I tried different suppliers of both CD and DVD with same result. I contacted HP support. When I explained the error, I was then told the problem was due to a copyright conflict in Vista that prevented the copy from being created. Is this freakin’ insane or what?

Now, to HP’s credit, they sent me a restore disk free of charge, but why did Microsoft allow something like this get out in the first place? My recommendation is do not hesitate in attempting creation of the restore disks on any new Vista O/S system. If you get this failure, please be quick to contact the company of origin for assistance in acquiring recovery disks.

Given the lackluster market response to Windows Vista, wouldn’t you think that they would be less strict with restrictions?