I don’t know about you, but I think Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s elevator pitch for Windows Vista reveals his lack of confidence about his company’s major software product.

Microsoft Vista has received even more negative publicity. This time it’s from Symantec CEO Enrique Salem who said that most of his company’s large enterprise customers still prefer to run their enterprise PCs on Windows XP.

Here’s more proof that showed no matter how much Microsoft wants to say that the Vista’s security features are full proof, it still is vulnerable to various security threats.

Microsoft faces more legal fun and games with the US Court of Appeals rejecting Microsoft’s appeal against a previous ruling by Judge Martha Pechman to allow the “Vista capable” lawsuit to proceed as a class action.

Microsoft Product Unit Manager, David Cross has said that Microsoft Vista programmers  intentionally  included User Account Control (UAC)  in Vista  to “annoy users”. The UAC, when activated, requires users to run Vista in standard user mode and gives them standard user access instead of administrator privileges. It even gets more annoying when users try to install a program and the system would prompt them each time.

It looks like Microsoft may release the successor to Windows Vista earlier than it planned. No less than Microsoft’s CEO Bill Gates gave a hint that Vista’s successor, Windows 7, may soon be hitting the development stage as early as next year.

Microsoft has renewed its drive towards the elimination of illegal copies of Windows Vista by issuing another automatic update. The update will scan a user’s system for the presence of any activation hacks and issue an alert containing a link to the legal activation site of Windows Vista.

Judging from the recent events in the lead up to the much anticipated release of Windows Vista 1 SP update, it looks like Microsoft will have major problems come the official release in March. Right after a prerequisite servicing stack was halted from automatic distribution, followed by another problem where Microsoft released a list of programs that would pose a problem with Vista SP1, here comes another glitch which is even bigger than the two previous issues.

Following recently reported problems with the Windows Vista SP1 prerequisite updates, Microsoft is now releasing a list of programs that would pose compatibility problems with Vista SP1.These programs would either be blocked from starting, would not run after the installation, or would have a loss of functionality after the installation.

Microsoft stopped the automatic distribution of the Vista SP1 update prerequisite KB937287 after receiving complaints from users who experienced problems during the update. The KB937287 servicing stack update is one of the prerequisites for the upcoming Vista SP1 upgrade which is due for official release by March.