Microsoft admits windows vista was a fail.

[YoKenny]

You sure can - mine is well populated 

that's not the quick launch they mean the "old way", like on XP and Vista, and that's still doable as the folder exists in your user profile:
C:\Users\***\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch

then add it as a new toolbar on the task bar, completely ridiculous and useless in Seven

+1

No Quick Launch for me as I use Pin a Program to the Windows 7 Taskbar:.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/397-taskbar-pin-unpin-program-links.html

[Shiw Liang]

Wow I didn't made difference between xp and 7 and you guys proved me wrong..
7 is quite more better than xp O.O"
I want windows 7 too..

[Marc57]

The only thing that took a while to get use to in Vista was UAC. Now I wouldn't want to be without it. When I work on an XP box I actually MISS it and feel a lot less secure. The first thing I did when I installed 7 was crank UAC all the way up. It's worth the extra button push and it's more secure that way.

[OrangeCrate]

Though I like Windows 7 better, I never had one problem with Vista. Considering the use of su/sudo* in Linux, UAC never bothered me in the least.

* http://www.tuxmagazine.com/node/1000148

[YoKenny]

The only thing that took a while to get use to in Vista was UAC. Now I wouldn't want to be without it. When I work on an XP box I actually MISS it and feel a lot less secure. The first thing I did when I installed 7 was crank UAC all the way up. It's worth the extra button push and it's more secure that way.

I do not like UAC all the way up and I like the way Windows 7 permits UAC sensitivity adjustment:
Windows 7: User Account Control (UAC) overview
http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/01/07/windows-7-whats-up-with-the-uac

[Hermite15]

on a side note, UAC isn't as efficient, in terms of security in Windows, as the "root" barrier in Linux. It's been demonstrated and acknowledged by many, including MS themselves. They of course didn't refer to Linux (yeah it's their policy to never mention it ), but said that it was very easy for malware to bypass UAC and gain admin privilege. UAC was just meant to encourage software programmers to make their apps run with standard non-elevated rights. Sorry can't find the link to the article anymore...so basically, an MS rep was saying that UAC didn't really make Windows more secure.