"Why is Vista so ridiculously inefficient?"

It's full of bloatware? Try opening Mircosoft Office and Open Office on the same computer.. which one starts up first and doesn't hang randomly?

I happen to have a dual boot computer (I need windows for games) and I see it all the time. Why would they do it? It could be just sloppy code on their part, but I think it's a mix of things.

Vista is still windows, but I still don't like the direction it's going in. They've taken their "the user is stupid, the OS knows best" policy even further with this DRM rubbish.

Is it just me, or does it seem like with every "progressive" version of windows, it seems more restrictive? Any of the "new" features I've seen have been available as plugins for XP for years (fancy transparent windows and the desktop search for example)