Whatever the claims of large updates to the inner workings of Windows, one of the bigger frustrations of Windows Vista is that there are still lots of little bits left over from Windows XP.

For example, the Display Properties window is just like that of the previous version of Windows once you get to it.

According to the Windows UI Taskforce, there are even more extreme examples of this, the Add fonts window hasn't been changed since Windows 3.1, making it harder to use than modern dialogue boxes.

I'm not programmer but surely it can't take that long to redesign a dialogue box. As much as I applaud the code reuse (and the money is probably better spent on security) it doesn't really give a very good impression.

I suppose it's an area where open source has an advantage as you can get the non programmers with a flair for design to do all of the legwork. Maybe.