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See my previous post for why I switched back from Vista to XP. To that list, I’ll add:

• UAC is a crappy, hackish bolt-on. They really need to rethink and revisit the hundreds of dialogs, control panels and configuration panes that make up Windows, rather than just having them respawn themselves depending on which button you press, with controls getting unlocked and locked accordingly. That’s clearly never going to happen, so I guess the next best option is to just turn off UAC. The current situation just doubles the number of windows that you have to open to get anything done.
• Vista’s ugly. Well, uglier than the Mac. It’s not even clearly better than Linux with Beryl, for god’s sake. And that thing appears to be written by a bunch of crack-smoking twelve year olds in Poland. Or something.