Absolutely. The latest update (oddly, for Office 2003) did something to internet access. I could ping everything on the network, including the DNS server on my ISP. However, no software that access the internet would work -- not Explorer, not Firefox, not Mail -- nothing. There's no way to remove updates once their installed (another "improvement" over XP), so I was left with no choice but to re-image the drive -- Sony and Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, won't sell you, much less give you, an actual Vista installation disk, so you can't repair and installation, only restore.

It's now 10:50 and I'm still waiting for the bloody re-image and first-time boot to finish. One of the things it does is install a whole bunch of trial garbage -- no way to stop it. A good part of the time spent bringing up the machine was decrappifying it.