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I've been having some stability problems with the work PC. It's been going on since Monday. Brian and Dale both saw the problem. But until three minutes ago, I thought I was the only one having the problem.

I was chatting with Kevin in the hallway when Chuck walked by.

Kevin: Chuck. I'm having some PC problems.
Chuck: Funny you should mention it. I'm having some problems too.
Kevin: Something-something-host is crashing.
Me: svchost. I'm having the same problem.
Kevin: My PC has been crashing twice a day.
Me: Mine too. It's been crashing at least twice a day since Monday.
Chuck: I have the same problem. It seems to have started Monday.
Kevin: Early when it crashed, it allowed me to start Visual Studio to debug the thing. Now it simply crashes the machine.
Me: I debugged into it. It's an illegal access error.
Kevin: Did you patch the binary and make a new release?
Chuck: I don't know what it is.
Kevin: There was a Windows Update this week. But it doesn't seem to fix this problem.
Chuck: The update came in mid-week. So it couldn't have been the cause of all the problems.
Me: Shortly after I clicked on the "Do not Send" button in the crash dialog box, my Explorer.EXE process seems to freeze.
Kevin: I can still use the programs that are already started. But I can't start any new programs.
Me: Wow. I'm glad to know that I'm not the only one having this problem. I thought I had a hardware problem.
Kevin: It's so weird. It turned all the windows into Windows 95 style at one time.
Me: Yeah, yeah, mine too.

It could be a secret Microsoft ploy to get us to buy Vista.