The 20 Worst Windows Features of All Time
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| From Windows 95's Active Desktop to Vista's UAC, a loving tribute to the
| tools, technologies, and applets that drive us absolutely bonkers.
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| Our roster includes several kinds of worsts: Just plain bad ideas, good ideas
| gone awry, and a few ideas that started out terrible but eventually became
| surprisingly decent. Click on the images above to see 'em all, starting with
| number 20.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,133191-page,1-c,electronics/article.html
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Vista Irritations
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| According to this Slashdot article, copying, moving and deleting
| files is slower under Vista. At least now I know why extracting a
| compressed file under Vista is like watching paint dry/grass grow
| (I've only tried using Winzip 11).
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| [...]
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| Now we name our directory and it?s done right? Not quite, because
| after typing your directory name and pressing enter, it's time
| for yet more prompts...
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http://harrisben.wordpress.com/2007/03/29/vista-irritations/
Vista: Slow and Dangerous
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| Most of the time I spent testing Vista was with sluggish pre-release
| versions. I expected things to improve when I ran the finished software
| on PCs configured for the new Windows version. I now realize that
| Vista really is slow unless you throw a lot of hardware at it.
| Microsoft claims it will run with 512 megabytes of memory. I had
| recommended a minimum of a gigabyte, but 2 GB is more like it if
| you want snappy performance.
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| [...]
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| The most exasperating thing about Vista, though, is the security
| feature called User Account Control. UAC, satirized in an Apple
| ad as a security guy who constantly interrupts a conversation,
| appears as a pop-up asking permission before Windows...
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http://www.keepmedia.com/pubs/BusinessWeek/2007/03/26/3124001
Your expense = my revenue
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| "Windows is a money making machine for everyone involved" - but
| describing it as really a kind of work for welfare scheme in which
| everyone wins -except the customer to whom it's a cost, and the
| national economy for which it's a productivity sink.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=803
Analyst slams Vista's 'backward' UI
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| Windows Vista is a step back in usability, researcher claims
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http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&newsID=17334
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