Vista 64 vs XP 32: HD 4870 X2 Runs better under Vista!

[xMrBunglex]

... and this thread is officially off topic now.

since we're bashing Vista, i'd like to add that Windows Photo Gallery won't display .GIF images. Micro$oft took something as simple and eloquent as the Windows Pictures and Fax Viewer and they replaced it with a shiny new program that doesn't display .GIF images. my expensive new operating system recommends i use Internet Explorer to view my .GIFs (because we all know web browsers make great image viewers and slide shows).

Vista is all about taking one step forward and two steps back. there are some great innovations in this OS that are often overshadowed by frequent annoyances. and then there are the truly evil things: the extra DRM, using DX10 to lure unsuspecting gamers, charging $400 for the full version and gimping the regular version, etc. and all you guys with sound cards know you got screwed out of EAX, right? now you have to live with hacked audio drivers from Creative to work around Vista's sound stack. and we all know how great Creative is with drivers.

UAC is a great idea, but it just doesn't learn. i want to be able to tell it which programs to trust so it stops bothering me every time i open CPU-Z. but UAC doesn't learn. it just ends up getting disabled by most users, rendering it utterly useless.