Erm, just for anyone that doesnt realise, Vista is a completely new OS, its not XP, and trying to be the most secure OS it means that US developers have to change the way we program things.
You're wrong on both accounts. Vista is not a new OS (it was supposed to, but after four years of little to no progress, they decided to drop that idea). Secondly Vista is not trying to be more secure, it is shifting responsibility for being secure onto the users. As this thread has unquestionably demonstrated by now there is precious little developers can do about it. Working on Vista most likely is done at best through a .NET capable language
Clearly you haven't actually tried that. How is it advancement when you cant write for windows now and expect a program to run on windows?
You've never really been able to do that. If you can get a program to run across the 5 most widely used flavors of Windows, you should wear the right on your sleeve - probably put that on your CV.