Vista never was anything but the reincarnation of the Windows ME fiasco.

Windows 2008 (Vista ME, Server Edition) also took the hit, scarcely deployed and whenever possible discarded in favor of Windows 2003 R2.

That said. Again and again I find myself in the loosing minority, killer features never taking off, I killed a duck.

On the client side Seven beta is a no-brainer replacement of Vista ME (in corporate land – stay on XP, wait for 7). On the server side I wish that 2008 R2 can reinstate some trust so that we can move on.

 

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ps. UAC is nowhere near reality. B1 sidebar replaced with pre-beta 6801 ditto, readily available elsewhere. x64 4801 backport is nowhere in the wild afaik.