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I got sick of so many positive reviews of Windows 7 on the Internet, and I have decided to start a series of articles tagged WINDOWS7: — you will learn what other reviewers "forgot" to tell you.

Lets start with Windows Task Manager. I know that you hope you won't need it, but once you have a rogue task at large does it do what its name suggests — does it enable you to manage tasks?

Short answer: NO.

Long answer: NO — after existing in Windows 95, Windows 95 OSR2, Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, Windows 98 ME, Windows NT (SP1 to SP6a), Windows 2000 (SP1 to SP4), Windows XP (SP1 to SP3), Windows Vista (SP1 and SP2), and now Windows 7, Windows Task Manager still fails to perform the most basic operation of killing a task as soon as you request it, and often is not able to kill a task at all.

In my opinion that fundamental flaw is the best indicator of how one of the core kernel functionalities, the task management, still has not evolved after 14 years of existence.