Windows Vista Update

It isn't emotional attachment.

I'm sure that down in history, Vista will be seen as another Windows ME.

Vista does bring forth several significant improvements - the new start menu, the hybrid explorer address bar, live preview of the items in the taskbar, areo... In essence: the looks. It's more streamlined.

But at the same time, it's flaws are rather significant. It takes up too much hard drive space - Vista alone consumes 40GB on my machine. Just Vista - nothing else.

UAC is badly implemented. It'll still ask you for your permission, even if you're already root. It has no memory, such that it'll ask you over and over for the same actions. Even firewalls that had this kind of application monitoring had that feature.

The permissions system is broken. Administrators can't modify permissions on certain files, which allows to the creation of root kits on Vista. Admins should have access to all files on a local system, but that isn't so with Vista. It's absolutely ridiculous.

Hardware support blows. Even NVidia's popular line of 6800-8800 series cards, arguably the most popular video cards currently on the market, isn't properly supported with Vista. You'd think Microsoft could of at least included somekind of driver wrapper as well.

It isn't that hard, and yeesh - we're 2007/2008 already. There's no reason why they couldn't of made a wrapper such that we could load on XP drivers and have them work in Vista. Maybe not for video cards, but at least for network cards (hey, even Linux has that!), printers, and other low-bandwidth hardware.

It has nothing to do with emotional attachment to XP. It has to do with the fact that XP is devoid of these problems. The permissions system works well in XP. There is no annoying UAC in XP - but I could always get something similar by installing something like Sunbelt's firewall (it sports application monitoring.) At least that thing can not ask me for permission to do the same thing twice. XP also doesn't take up 40GB of space. In fact, it works on my laptop that has only 6GB.

There's a reason why MS admits that they're moving away from Vista and into Min Win.