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Longhorn and Vista introduce a new kind of Start Menu which includes a search textbox to find your programs faster. However, I'm a WinKey, P, A, arrow left, arrow down, arrow down, ENTER guy to open something (in this case Active Directory Users and Computers). However, due to the introduction of the search textbox, it's impossible to do this, as the P key starts searching for apps that contain the letter P (Paint, etc). So, I switched back to the classic start menu (which I also did on Windows Server 2003 on my primary machine). The classic start menu looks like this:

Look at the left-hand side of the menu ... weird, isn't it? It's a well-known fact that every Windows build starts with the last stable build, which is in this case Windows Server 2003 + SP1, but over here it seems to be the case that the embedded resources that contain these logos are still from the pre-RTM W2K3 phase (where the Windows Server 2003 product had names such as Windows .NET Server, Windows Server .NET 2003). Or the teams just were trying to make things even more mysterious around Longhorn Server by taking some silly old image from the archives and putting it in Longhorn :-).

Wondering whether I should report this as a bug or a feature? :d