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More like "Looks like another Windows version has been released. Time to start bitching about how terrible it is." This has occurred with EVERY version of Windows.

http://download.cnet.com/Windows-7-Annoyances/3000-20412_4-75188203.html
http://itexpertvoice.com/home/fixing-five-common-windows-7-annoyances/
http://askbobrankin.com/five_annoying_things_about_windows_7.html
http://techgage.com/article/top_8_vista_annoyances/
http://www.doitscared.com/826/common-windows-xp-annoyances-and-how-to-fix-them/
http://wiki.robotz.com/index.php/Annoyances_of_Windows_2000/XP
http://www.amazon.com/Windows-98-Annoyances-David-Karp/dp/1565924177

FYI, If you know that your battery has plenty of juice left, there's a fix available. Sort of. The #5 item in Fixing Five Common Windows 7 Annoyances is "the undead battery." One way to know if it's necessary:

To see if your battery problems are likely to come from this conflict between Windows 7 and your hardware run the powercfg -energy command from a command prompt. If the result is that Windows was unable to determine the battery’s capacity, sooner or later you will see the misleading error messages or have the laptop shutdown prematurely.

One or more DirectAccess servers running Windows Server 2008 R2 with two network adapters: one that is connected directly to the Internet, and a second that is connected to the intranet

It will be a cold day in Hell before I plug a Windows system in both outside and inside the firewall.

Seriously, is Microsoft suggesting you hang pwn me signs on your servers too?

To be clear. Best practices has been and always will be to place a firewall between all your servers and the internet.

It would make more sense if the requirement was to plug one NIC into a trusted DMZ for remote access users to attach to (and gain slightly-elevated privileges), and another NIC into a less-trusted DMZ, to accept only valid DirectAccess traffic.