Why I don't like Vista

Why I don't like Vista at all

When you install updates, you have to endure long waits after you logout before it reboots, then wait again after it reboots before you can log in again.

You can't change the login screen's background picture (OK, you can... with third-party tools). With XP it wasn't directly supported either, but it was much easier. It's not a major problem of course, but it tells something.

The good old NTBACKUP was replaced with a "backup utility" that is easy to use alright, but it is almost useless even for the novice. Come on, what kind of backup utility doesn't allow you to choose which folder(s) to backup? And anyway, if you add a nice utility, feel free, but why didn't you leave NTBACKUP there?
- And if you saw the downloadable NTBACKUP on Microsoft's web site and thought that they ported it after all, look closer: it's just the restore stuff, no backups.

To summarize, this time Microsoft went over their heads to make a system that suits them, not you.

About 500MB download.
It takes about half an hour just to unpack.
After you restart, it takes 15 minutes of "applying updates". I hope they put together something smarter for Windows Server 2008 because nobody is going to apply SP1 if it leaves your server down for so much.

When you change the extension on a file in Windows Explorer (provided that you have enabled "Show extensions for known file types" at all, but that's a different rant), you get a warning saying that changing a file extension is dangerous. You can't disable that warning.