If you have a lot of documents, you should use Windows Media Player to pull them up…
No, it’s not a joke. This Vista review by the Wall Street Journal (subscription only, but here’s a summary by Michael Parekh) discovered that if you have thousands of files, Vista comes to it’s knees. Displaying a complex directory structure with thousands of entries took Vista over 6 minutes – still better than XP, which simply crashes. (Mac: 30 seconds).
The reviewer contacted Microsoft, and here’s the hilarious answer (no, it was not on April 1st):
“Microsoft said I would have had better luck viewing my files in its Media Player software. As for why its file system simply wasn’t more robust in the first place, it said it put its development resources in areas that affect the most people.”
This not long after Microsoft Outlook’s Program Manager declared that the two major design changes that were heralded as key new features crippled Outlook’s performance.
I’ve long given up hope on Microsoft fixing their software… but they sure could fix their messaging problem. Or perhaps just hire Stephen Colbert.
“In the future we’re all going to become gofers for computers.” – says 
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