I found this while searching for using GTK on Windows. Here is the thread.

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Originally posted by The Shadow: You know, funny thing is, they said the same thing about XP’s animations when XP came out – 5 years ago. But most 2002-vintage machines don’t run XP very well unless they’ve been pretty heavily upgraded. I don’t really see Vista as being any different in that respect.

Not just there, most of the complaints about Vista are also the complaints people said about XP and Win2K when they were released. Right down to the same catch phrases and statements.

Bloated… blah blah… resource hog… blah blah… incompatible… blah blah… wait for SP1… blah blah…

It’s actually almost comical.