Playing music / video brings networking to it's knees
http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=702

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Memory leak in Kernel causes file move / copy / deletion issues
To make things worse, copying / moving files fails silently (user not informed)
http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=829
http://www.msdner.com/dev-archive/13...0-1390318.shtm
http://forum.kaspersky.com/index.php?showtopic=33258

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Any problems connecting to WGA servers labels your OS as pirated
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/...eltdown_1.html

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^^^ above is not a vista issue (affects XP as well)
but when coupled with Vista's "Black screen of Darkness"
http://www.computerworld.com.au/inde...1;fp;16;fpid;1
It becomes a real "Vista only" problem
(3 guesses what the Storm botnet regularly targets....)

(Regular Teck Talk attendees will know that SP1 will somewhat resolve this issue - supposedly, anyway)

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US Government is suspected to have put a backdoor in a new encryption system
http://www.schneier.com/essay-198.html

and guess what, Vista includes the new encryption system
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archive...c_drbg_ad.html

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Then, there's the whole "stealth updates" thing
http://www.computerworld.com/action/...icleId=9036058
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscente..._concerns.html

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And lastly (well, for now)
computer forensics experts raise an eyebrow or two

Vista creates, uses and stores far more personal, and trackable, information
potentially making prosecutions for mis-deeds a hell of a lot easier
http://www.abanet.org/journal/ereport/jy13tkjasn.html