PC World: The 20 Worst Features in Windows History

From the Active Desktop in Windows 95 to Vista's UAC, a series of tools, technologies, and programs bundled in Windows have left us increasingly overwhelmed. In November 1985, Microsoft released its Windows 1.0, and since then, over the course of 22 years, Windows has become the world's most widely used — and complained about — computing platform. Which Windows features are the hardest for people to accept? We extensively gathered opinions from PCWORLD readers, PCW community netizens, as well as PCWORLD editors and authors, and ultimately selected the following 20 worst features in the history of Windows.