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both fix security bugs and some of the performance issues. While performance was claimed to be increased by up to 5%, users tend not to see the results of the upgrade.

Have I Already Seen This Somewhere?

Unlike XP's unique design, Vista aspect and theme has often been compared to the Aqua interface of Apple's Mac Os X, often by the same Apple CEO Steve Jobs during many of his notorious Keynote addresses held once every six months. Similarities are stunning and quite evident and include, but are not limited to: the Aqua design and theme, calendar and mail application, the chess application, different aspects in window behavior, and so on. Apple even produced a TV ad to explain of all these similarities, which substantially help put this thought in the mind of the consumers.

It Worked on XP... Why not in Vista?

While XP features a very useful set of options that let you run any given application in a way that is compatible with every single Microsoft operating system since Windows 95, Windows Vista is facing serious compatibility problems with many of the games and utility programs that previously worked in XP and now can no longer work under Vista, not even in a virtual machine environment. As of July 2007, there are about 2000 applications with the 'Vista Compatibility Logo'. That may sound like a lot, but is actually an extremely low percentage compared to the number of programs that can currently work under XP, either natively or in simulation modality.

Annoying Security Guard ends up Putting your Files in Danger!

Windows XP security was, while certainly not flawless, at least working to a reasonable level. Vista security, on the other hand, may only be described as overzealous: every action you do that has a potentially dangerous consequence for your security yields a truly annoying alert asking you to authorize or deny permission and confirm the operation. Curiously, even this aspect was featured in an Apple TV commercial, and is maybe known as one of the most annoying features of the system. Many users, in fact, will end up completely disabling the security system, with dangerous consequences in terms of security. When a security system practically prompts so many users to disable it, clearly there is something wrong there.

In the end, 'downgrading' from Vista to XP is probably worth the effort. And I put 'downgrading' between apostrophes because, all things considered, a passage from Vista to XP seems much more like an upgrade at this point!

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