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Vista Slow To Copy, Delete Files
Bruce Schneier has said that trying to make digital files uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet. With Vista, Microsoft seems to have done a pretty good job of making premium content files not copyable. Now a few readers have tipped us to a new wrinkle: Vista also makes it very, very slow to copy, rename, or delete ordinary files. Here is a Microsoft TechNet thread on the problem. The Reg reports that Microsoft has a hotfix for what sounds like a subset of the more general problem complained about on TechNet; but they will only give it to customers who ask nicely. And a hotfix is fussier to install than a proper patch.
Even more interesting is that the first post on this thread is dated Nov 2006. Looks like this problem has been there since Jan 2007.... ie: ever since the release. Why is Slashdot so slow to highlight glaring defects in Vista?
If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
Because people on Slashdot don't actually use the newest Microsoft OS before flaming it, so they wouldn't really know some of the less-publicized-yet-annoying problems like this.
I'd say Slashdot is actually pretty quick at highlighting problems with Vista (try slashdot.org/tags/defectivebydesign), but they don't really pick the right problems to bitch about - it's just "DRM this, Activation that".
WHO NEEDS SHIFT WHEN YOU HAVE CAPSLOCK/ DAMN1
Of course it's Insightful! It's about Microsoft being bad!