Three weeks ago I wrote amongst others about the need to downgrade from Windows Vista back to Windows XP. So for the last three weeks I have been running Windows XP on my laptop machine, the machine I am using for training, presentation, webcast and development purposes. The reason to downgrade to Windows XP was a showstopper I had in Platform Builder for Windows Embedded CE 6.0. Somehow I was not able to make a connection between my development environment and target hardware. Over the last few weeks Windows XP has not let me down to be honest. Everything has been working fine, even the demos I ran live on stage last week during MEDC ran without problems. At the same time I am kind of missing the new look and feel of Windows Vista. Therefore I was happy to read the announcement of the Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Platform Builder Service Pack 1 and I already downloaded this service pack. Unfortunately, the upcoming week is very busy with no time to install the service pack. Tuesday I will fly to Redmond where I will present a MSDN Webcast on Device Emulator 2.0 on Wednesday. On Thursday I will rehearse my Tech Ed presentation for an exclusive audience on Campus. On Friday I will fly back to Phoenix after which I might have some time to consider upgrading from Windows XP to Windows Vista again. Even though I am tempted to do this as soon as possible, there is one scary little sentence in the brief description header on the download page of the Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Platform Builder Service Pack 1: ´The Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Platform Builder Service Pack 1 Tools helps address some areas of the Windows Embedded CE 6.0 toolkit impacted by Windows Vista™ enhancements’. I was hoping all the areas impacted by Windows Vista enhancements would be addressed. Some sounds a little vague for me to again upgrade with confidence to Windows Vista. I guess I will first test everything on a non-production machine before actually making the move forward again.