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As though I did not already have enough reasons to hate Windows Vista, it just gave me another one: restarting without permission. I twice told Windows Update restart prompts to leave me alone for a while, but it seems my work is of no consequence to Microsoft because I was not given the option to restart a third time; the restart was forced upon me without so much as a notification—not a visible one, anyway (Windows Vista does have a habit of opening some of its many prompts behind active windows).
Forced restarts are always annoying, but this one was particularly annoying because it did not even let me save my work first; it closed my applications while I was using them and it even closed the save prompt Flash presented before I was able to use it, so changes to two or three open files were lost—destroyed by rude software from Microsoft.
I hope everyone who worked on or approved forced restarting in Windows Update catches an especially nasty cold this year.
