* Windows Vista is slower and takes longer to pull up than XP. Windows 7 takes even longer than Vista to pull up (It can sometimes take over 5 full minutes, not from turning it on, but from LOGGING ON).

* Windows Vista often freezes while performing Windows updates.

* When you open a Word document directly from the web on Windows 7 and then click save, it does not bring up the Save As menu like XP does, nor does it automatically save it to your documents. Although it looks like it saves your work, it actually does not save it at all.

* Logging into Windows 7 (not turning it on, but just logging in) often causes the mouse to lock up, which makes you pull it out and plug it back in before it works.

* A large number of simple actions in Windows 7 now requires a confirmation.

* The screen saver for Vista doesn’t recognize when a movie is going on and causes the screen to go off 10 minutes into a movie.

* Although the battery icon for Vista may look like it’s three quarters full, it may still lose power in 20 minutes.

* In Windows 7, you can’t simply right-click a link on a gmail draft and open it in another tab like you could in Windows XP but must copy and paste the link yourself.

* Even though IE in Windows 7 comes with the tab add-on included, it very often opens new links by opening another browser.

* Windows 7 also causes the cursor on many text windows (like the one I use for this blog) to constantly jump to the very top every second or so unless you are typing something or moving the cursor. So if I stop typing for just a second, it jumps to the top and I can no longer read what I just wrote. This even happens when you’re *holding* the scroll bar to prevent it from jumping, making it extremely difficult to scroll down on Twitter for longer than a second.

* When using Windows 7, if you click anywhere near text that has an indentation, or has tags imbedded in the text, you get a perpetual “working” loop that can only be stopped by going to the task manager and closing out the entire browser.

* Windows 7 only has one volume control and even when you put it on the loudest setting and then raise the volume of the media to it’s loudest, you still can barely hear anything coming out of the computer, which on an Acer monitor is in the back for some reason.

* System Restore in Windows XP lets you go back 6 months. System Restore in Vista lets you go back 12 days.

* Word 2010 takes forever to open up, so of course whenever you double-click a Word document file, it opens up in Word 2010 even if you have Word 2003 already opened up on your desktop. Windows XP opens double-clicked files onto whatever version of Word that was open on the desktop bar. Even opening a file last used by Word 2010 from the “Recent Documents” from Word 2003 causes it open in Word 2010.

* Windows 7 resets the cursor about a second after a webpage is pulled up, so if you open Google and immediately start typing, you typically only get 5 or 6 characters in before the cursor resets and you begin typing the rest of the word at the beginning of the field.