Turning on the firewall in XP, modifying the firewall in XP, and turning off the firewall in XP...all things that most users need to do regularly...are lessons in just how poorly designed you can make a system if you really, really try.
Windows Media Center is a good operating system for high end laptops. My brother has a Toshiba that came with Pentium IV, a gigabyte of RAM, and Windows Media Center. It is great for giving presentations and as an entertainment center on the road.
But it has some annoying features. Even on multiprocessor systems, you can't just launch a process like printing a large document and continue using the computer for something else. The next version of Windows needs to handle multithreading better.
Turning on the firewall in XP, modifying the firewall in XP, and turning off the firewall in XP...all things that most users need to do regularly...are lessons in just how poorly designed you can make a system if you really, really try.
Yep, you're invested. There's a whooole lotta techies like you that help MS sales a great deal.
From my selfish point of view, I'd like to see more intuitive, innovative, bugfree and userproof computing.
But I hope you will apply your great talents in even more successful endeavors.