i had two major issues with vista: windows media player 11 being installed and not being able to view thumbnails of images.

i hate windows media player 11 and never update from 10 to it in xp because i prefer 10. i can't stand 11's gui and it forced me to switch to a better media manager: winamp

and i couldn't figure out how to view thumbnails of images in file browser. it was like microsoft wanted to force you to use their image browser- no thanks!

those two issues compounded the greater software incompatibility problem that everyone faced. eventually i removed vista and reverted to xp.

i feel like those people who hated when windows se and me came out.