I'm trying to submit an application to renew my passport. Of course, the PDF has all kinds of extra junk that makes it non-standard, and while I can see it on my Mac, it's not exactly the way Passport Canada expects it. You need the official Adobe Acrobat to fill it properly and get the fancy 2D barcode to auto-generate, and you don't want to make life difficult right?
At the same time, the printer at work is Windows only. The solution is obvious: Windows form, Windows printer, grab a windows machine and get the job done. Not so fast. The spare windows machine doesn't have the drivers configured. Arggh. Vista.
After a solid hour of screwing around with it, I saved the PDF, moved it to someone's laptop, and printed from there. Vista means doing a lot of things, most of them badly, slowly, and very painfully.
And people wonder why I haven't looked back and don't care about Windows 7.