Originally Posted by eroticsexxx

Vista has a different coding base with a higher level of integrated security. as well as features which allow it to streamline its use of the hardware. It's a complete overhaul of the way that Windows handled programs and data. In short, program compatibility was expected.

If you had run the Microsoft Upgrade Advisor when your system had XP, you would have known what programs were incompatible.

The MUA, HCL and the SCL were on the Vista website months before it was released. Despite that fact, people just expected things to work out of the box, which is impossible unless Microsoft became proprietary like Apple and tightened the reins around developers necks in the same way.

With freedom to install as you please comes the responsibility to do your research.

Solution here, which was included in a downloadable patch when Vista came out. (bviously included in SP1)

That issue did not affect mainstream users to a significant degree at all, btw.