More bad news for Windows Vista as PC World crowns it as the biggest tech disappointment of the year.

Here are some of the comments added by PC World from their recent article:

* “Five years in the making and this is the best Microsoft could do?”
* “It’s not that Vista is awful.” “It’s just that Vista isn’t all that good.”
* “Despite its hefty hardware requirements, Vista is slower than XP.”

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Everyone running Vista Ultimate saw the same thing I did this morning: the limited preview of Vista’s DreamScene which we saw demonstrated at CES. This is essentially an active desktop background that can be animated. I called this a “limited” preview because there’s currently only one scene to view, but I did a little digging and found a free extension to it from …

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