Oh great. Trying to search for anything pops up this window and for no reason at all displays an animated dog that stands around and acts like it wants to wiz on your files. Another thing in Windows that doesn't need to exist.

Rover Retriever in Windows XP (2001)	Rover Retriever in Microsoft BOB (1995)

Yes, that is the very same Rover Retriever from the legendary botched software product, Microsoft BOB.

In Windows XP the media player now has to reinvent it's own UI, like every other media player out there. I have one question: why?

Another new thing with Windows: Remote Desktop. Shown here is the client version, which can be downloaded for previous versions of Windows. The server version is just a cut-down Windows Terminal Server that is only available on XP.

Windows XP of course includes the latest version of Idiot Exploiter, version 6. Fortunately of course it's possible to choose a better alternative, but with IE integrated into the shell still and with indiscriminate web-integrated cruft still pointing to IE being present how much of a choice is that, really?