This reminds of my bitching every time I need to restart Windows Vista on my gaming desktop, and think ‘What part of _only download but let me chose when to install the updates_ don’t you understand when I see that exclamation mark on the shutdown button.

A complete guide to upgrade downgrade the Sony Vaio P from Windows Vista to Windows XP.

Joel Spolsky writes about the usability aspect of Windows Vista’s having at least nine ways of shutting down. He argues that giving users more choices is more restrictive than liberating, especially since most users won’t know the difference among these, anyway.

Every time you want to leave your computer, you have to choose between nine, count [...]