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Vista's five worst features
blogs.computerworld.com — Unlike many people, I'm a fan of Vista. But I can also recognize it has some awful features as well. Based on writing several books, and countless reviews, I've found five Vista features that are little more than a simple waste of bits --- or worse.
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- CarzorStelatis, on 07/08/2008, -2/+3Buried for including UAC. It might not be a perfect implementation of the idea, but its omission was one of Windows XP's biggest flaws.
- Commodus, on 07/08/2008, -1/+2Vista's implementation *is* a flaw. It gets in your way frequently enough that you quickly learn to stop taking its messages seriously -- which is part of the point of security notices.
It should show up only when there's a genuine security risk, not when you're trying to change a non-security setting in the control panel.
- Commodus, on 07/08/2008, -1/+2Vista's implementation *is* a flaw. It gets in your way frequently enough that you quickly learn to stop taking its messages seriously -- which is part of the point of security notices.
- LewP, on 07/08/2008, -0/+1I dugg it, but I'm sorry I did. The article itself was good, but the popup adds, the lack of pictures showing up, almost made it impossible to get to the meat of the article.
- wisedude, on 07/08/2008, -0/+3more crap about vista? Front page, here we come!
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