i think it was strongly disliked by many non-technical users because it was the first one where MS tried to lock down some admin functions, forcing the users to confirm or enter an admin password to continue. This isn't necessarily bad but it was rather hamfisted and disliked.
Technical reasons for disliking it may have been different. It appeared after I had abandoned their products and I never had to deal with it. On Wed, Aug 7, 2024 at 2:48 PM mark audacity romberg via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Slow, code bloat, ate resources. > > There is no measurable or even reasonably-arguable way that Vista was > superior to 10. > > Actually, I can’t think of any way that it was superior to 7, or to 8 once > you turned the touch-enabled Start Menu off. > > >
