AND I thought Linux flavours were often difficult to configure! Look at this account of testing Windows Vista in doing something one would think was a simple activity. Burning Issues with Vista by Richard Rasker is quite an account!

Just getting Windows Vista to even start looking at the problem of Burning a DVD, Windows Vista threw the tester a number of difficulties. AND when he was able to get burning to occur he found dozens of irregularities with the way Vista referred to the burning process itself. So much were the irregularities it seemed that Windows Vista locks its users into a proprietary version of burning a DVD.

If you are intending to use your CDs and DVDs you burn with a Vista machine on any other machine you need to understand your options and what should be done to maximum use on other systems. You could be locking yourself into using a proprietary Microsoft standard that the CDs and DVDs can only be accessed by Windows XP and Vista.

The article is well worth a read!