From: "Geo" 

So after a few days running vista on my mail laptop I've come to the
conclusion that the reason Microsoft does things like turning off the menu
bar in IE7 is just to make it look different because it certainly isn't for
added functionality as I had to turn it back on to make it useable.

Seems there is a lot of new paint who's only purpose is to hide the fact
that it's still a Windows 2000 system with not much new except DRM and a
few frills and ok there are a handful of .1 release type improvements like
task manager.

Windows mail is outlook express.

Spider solitare has been improved with really annoying cards and
highlighting and it now sucks up way more resources.

Networking with W2K is just as bad as it was with XP. Maybe worse.

IPv6 is enabled by default, why is beyond me, perhaps they just wanted to
provide more surface area for hackers?

The number of running services has increased to the point of being rediculous.

The user whatever the hell it's called feature that questions your every
command does have an off switch and I really can't believe there is anyone
who won't turn it off.

I'm going to run it for at least a couple more months but at this point I
much prefer W2K or even  xp.. I sincerely believe that Vista
was designed by marketing not by geeks and certainly not by anyone who uses
a computer more than an hour a day.

Geo.

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