This classic Eric Lippert post describes, in excruciating, painful detail, exactly how much work it takes to add a single ChangeLightBulbWindowHandleEx function to a codebase at Microsoft:

We are coming closer to the finish line. I’m thinking of making the purchase of the new PC components in the next month or the month thereafter. I would like to thank everyone for their great and valuable comments which pointed me into the right directions concerning some components.

Microsoft has filed both an appeal and a motion to stay in response to a court decision in late February that allowed the "Vista Capable" lawsuit to move forward. Redmond is fighting that decision on two fronts, and has asked an appeals court to review the district court's decision while simultaneously requesting a stay in the case until the appeals court rules on the company's petition.Read More...

According to Digital Inspiration that’s the case if you are using Windows XP because leaving the password blank makes it impossible to connect to the computer remotely. The link given in the article which points to the Password Strength & Password Security page at Microsoft.com is unfortunately not available at this point.

When you right-click an item in Windows you get lots of options to choose from. One is to open or edit the file and for the case that you want to open it with a different application the Open With menu comes in handy. It’s another option available in the right-click menu which displays a list of programs which are often never used to open a file in Windows.