Spyware

The point that Vista, despite being rather better than it is given credit for, was botched from top to bottom. Microsoft delivered late, but I think the third party manufacturers are more to blame. Greedy vendors saw the opportunity to instantly make whole swathes of products obsolete, and they did it. They also stuck Vista stickers on underpowered hardware and in this case, Dell even refuses add an XP uninstaller to its Vista driver downloads, citing “bandwidth” as a problem.