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Story: Microsoft: Vista UAC designed to 'annoy users'

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OK, so that makes sense...

But what about the "feature" that takes it several hours to copy a few megs of videos off a memory stick? Obviously that was designed to annoy the hell out of the user, but to what ends this time?

I also admire the way they designed the software to hog resources and require a ludicrous amount of computing power to perform no better than XP on a system with a fraction of the CPU, RAM and HDD capacities. Obviously a deliberate attempt to get hardware vendors to make better processors and drop prices.

I take my hat off to Microsoft. Even cleverer than I first thought.

(may contain traces of sarcasm)

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