Windows Vista at One Year (Dark Side Report)
Tens of millions of computer systems have been sold which are fitted with expensive 2D and 3D accelerated graphics cards (and the Vista operating system) and it is only when you get the machine home (and after lots of testing) that you discover that Vista has totally destroyed all hardware 2D hardware acceleration
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