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I still have a few outstanding issues with Windows (or Microsoft maybe):

• Windows sometimes loses local user profiles. It doesn’t lose the file systems, it just creates a new profile when the user logs in; browser bookmarks, quicklaunch icons, and almost all other settings are gone. I think this may be a sign that it’s time to rebuild Windows due to rot. Speaking of Windows rot, I think it’s best to rebuild a machine from scratch approximately every six months, at most once per year.
• There’s an option in the Mouse control panel that causes the cursor to move to the default button when a new UI opens. It would be nice if there was an option to move the cursor back to where it was before the dialog opened (think about detaching multiple databases in SQL Server Management Studio). It would be even better if it had the intelligence to move the cursor to where the user is actually most likely to click in common dialogs including those in common applications.
• Microsoft Live Messenger kept restarting itself, and configuring itself to restart when I log in, so I had to uninstall it.
• There still seems to be a lot of software unavailable for 64-bit platforms and/or Windows 2008. There are hacks for some of it (such as Zune), but not others (for example, I seem to have to run a 32-bit browser to use Adobe Flash). It’s not clear to me why huge software companies like Adobe are having trouble with this transition.
• Zune software is not available for all Windows editions, especially 64-bit. Zune is a Microsoft product and important enough to me that this deserves special mention. Ridiculous.
• I might as well complain about Word too. Insert Cross-reference is one of the few Word features that I actually use. This dialog can show hundreds or even thousands of headings. Why doesn’t this dialog include a search feature? Why can’t I dock this dialog? Why do I have to resize this dialog from 426x338 every time I open it, when my monitor is 1920x1200? Why do I have to select the Heading Reference type every time I open this dialog?