A blogger I occasionally read (which means more often than most others), All About Linux, refers to an article on 25 Shortcomings of Vista.

While most of these are fairly high level complaints, a few did strike me as ones that would irritate me or make my life more difficult at work.

“3. Antivirus
Vista does not bundle an antivirus application, and most third party antivirus applications are not yet compatible with Vista.”

This would be a major faux pas on Microsoft’s part, though I rather suspect they intend to pull an AV offering out of their hat just prior to (or perhaps strategically after) Vista launch. Or they may just be ballsy/id10tic enough to claim Vista’s so secure it doesn’t need AV.

“24. Some Protocols Eliminated
Vista does not include support for IPX, Gopher, WebDAV, NetDDE and AppleTalk.”

We use WebDAV at work, and while it’s use is limited and not critical, it would still be irritating to design a workaround.

“25. WordPad
Ability to open .doc files has been removed.”

Well this just plain sucks for home use, as my computer is barely high enough horsepower to open current versions of Word.
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Ahh well, we’ll just wait and see when it officially comes out.