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Windows Vista, how do I hate thee? Let me not count the ways lest the compilation of my list keep me awake through sunrise.
I will tell you, though, my well-hated Windows Vista, that automatic restarts without so much as a visible prompt are fucking obnoxious. I will tell you, Windows Vista, that as much as I hate when a program steals my input focus, I hate your habit of opening important system message windows in the background even more. You see, Windows Vista, it seems that this behavior just conspired with an automatic update and an automatic system restart to cause me to lose a lengthy blog comment I happened to be writing at the time. I can tell you that a window with an update-related title came into existence, but I cannot tell you what it said because while I saw it appear on my taskbar, it was never actually shown to me; it remained in the background hidden behind my active Web browser from its appearance to its disappearance.
Windows Vista, you are truly a horrible operating system. Sure, you're pretty, but from your stupid driver architecture that prevents me from using perfectly good peripherals to your various application issues to your simultaneously improved and hobbled file system navigation, you are just very, very horrible. How people at Microsoft could think you were good enough to unleash upon the public is beyond me. Windows Vista, I am looking forward to your successor not because I want to see it rise, but because I want to see you fall. Please die, Windows Vista. Die, die, die.
