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A bunch of technical stuff Microsoft are doing, that's get users mad, but aren't needed... This list is really incomplete

Why Miscrosoft s*cks sometime

Using Windows Vista: Controlling Communication with the Internet

Why is Windows so verbosly speaking to Microsoft's websites ? http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsVista/en/library/7ea6ee84-b696-4e75-9c1c-c2b99c8af54b1033.mspx

Phishing Filter and Resulting Internet Communication in Windows Vista

Only the domain and path information in the URL, without additional information such as search strings that might be appended to the domain and path of the URL.

Why do they need to lookup the whole page ? that's not to prevent phishing (banning can be done based the host only!)

Network Connectivity Status Indicator / www.msftncsi.com

Why can't this be customised ? (especially for companies).