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Windows Vista!

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.... WORK IN PROGRESS ... This is a long blog entry, as the matter is serious and it cannot be trivialized by a few sound bites. I started using Windows Vista only in January 2008. I didn't believe all the negative reviews out there. After jumping into it, I still do not accept all the comments that I have read previously. But Windows Vista is more than a disaster , it is alarming. It looks like the first step of a Microsoft decline, unless Microsoft takes drastic steps to get out of this complacency. Speedwise, Vista is not slow, it is just fatally flawed. Features-wise, Vista is a retrograde, a big step backward. Things which we could previously do in Windows XP and Windows 2000 are now missing. Microsoft does not give information on how Windows Vista is done. So I can only try and reconstruct by deducing from what I can see. First, it is a very different team that worked on Vista. This is a team of Generation Xers , iPod- totting, and who use Windows XP without ventur