Ok, ok. I guess the oil analogy was straight retarded for me to use and I lost sight of where I was for a second, hah. What I get for posting so haphazardly.
I agree that yes the whole tiles thing is a "different strokes for different folks" concept.
I am just honestly sick of fixing friends or family members computer problems I suppose, and that may be in large part due to not wanting a re-install or upgrade version or downloading service packs that bring with them even more and different vulnerabilities or problems, but that is expected I suppose with any technology, if its not broken someone will find a way to break it just to show they can or to cause grief among end-users.
You have to take into account people that don't care so much about their computers as we might, and are using under 2 gigs of RAM or for some dumb reason are still running 32-bit systems even though they don't have to.
For the x64 of vista I would say the biggest problems I ran into was kernel integrity> code integrity, patchguard and driver signing, driver signing being the biggest
their UAC or user account control along with user interface privilege isolation, system process separation (session 0) Socket ACL's, DEFINITELY windows defender, update, windows firewall and Bitlocker, even though most of the Bitlocker and firewall was moved to a passive setting rather than an on/off toggle set-up on windows 8 or 8.1. (sorry, bitlocker was never able to turn off/on in any ease)
Then you have the Address space layout randomization, pointer obfuscation, SafeSEH, secure heap manager on and on and on. I could do this for hours not sure what point I am actually making anymore......Except I guess the workarounds are obviously more plentiful the older a version is, but then when Micrsoft announces no longer supporting version updates that it just brings long-held exploits out of the woodworks.
on a side note, I use dual-booting windows7/ubuntu personalized versions to the point I couldnt put a number on it and booting into my windows 7 running both processors from boot I can start my computer into the login screen and all applications running in 7 seconds. I jus cant seem to get these clunkier versions of windows with high GUI's to do the same. I dont know I think I even just lost myself.
Edit: Oh ok, maybe I am just trying to say over all that I wish to God that microsoft would just take more time on a product before releasing it and having to constantly patch even though I swear it is in their business model to do patch updates even if the service packs contain 50% of usefull items, maybe they should make much lighter SP's so I won't have to also fix added problems they put in with a lot of fluff on some of the packs.