That Geeky Kid Billy Always Gets Picked On......
Even though Microsoft wont remove security flaws, at least now it lets us turn them off.
Not that I'm a fan of M$, but this really isn't fair. To engineer software reliably to a point past where you think hackers will ultimately be able to think of a way around security sometime in the future, is well, a pipe dream.
M$ does release their little fixes, and the monthly, "Malicious Software Removal Tool", in some sort of timely manner. So I'm at least a little reassured that they at least have our interests at heart, if not our best interests.
On the other hand, the fact that the corporation is a bully as a whole, and whether we have much effect on what we want Windows to be, is probably worthy of further discussion.
What has improved since XP, is Windows color management, which now probably rivals Apple's "Color Sync". So that to be involved in graphic arts or photography, doesn't require springing for a Power Mac.
The tragic irony here is that aftermarket LCD monitors with MVA or IPS panels are almost extinct. The clamor for ever more "affordable" screens has left us with a bunch of crap, TN, 6 bit panels, which change color and density if you so much as blink. This pretty much negates any gains in the color management strategy of the OS. Just a photographers 2 cents here.