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As if User Account Control in Windows Vista isn’t annoying enough with its constant prompting for “Allow or Deny” now the web ads for Vista are even more annoying.

This morning I visited weather.com to decide on my wardrobe selection for the day.  I was greeted with 7 windows that flew in and stacked up to represent the new task switching mechanism in Vista.  As usual I began looking for the customary “close” button as quickly as possible.  Once I located it, I clicked it, and I was redirected to a new window and microsoft.com.  So I closed that window and the ad was still playing in the background.  I tried again, thinking maybe I clicked just outside the box, but got the same result.  After closing that window the ad was just ending (yes it was that long), once it disappeared I clicked in the input box to enter my zip and get the weather.  A new window pops up and I am redirected to Microsoft.com.  Confused, I again close it.  Back at weather.com I realize they have left around an invisible div that is now covering about 1/2 of the page and won’t go away.  The only way I could get it to go away was to reload weather.com.  Luckily, I didn’t get another ad.

“Upgrade to Microsoft Web Ads Vista, now with better conversion rates!”  Are you coming to sad realization about Windows Vista too?