Microsoft gave you your option: Test Mode. You know, the thing you said you didn't like because of the watermarks. Use it or stfu
The option to disable them via command line basically negates them completely since any installer could disable it permanently, and it makes sense to remove that.
Quick launch should be gone, vanished into thin air.
It makes no sense to want a separate bar of icons for apps, which leads to an icon for an app on top of the icon on the taskbar for the running instance of the app.
Instead, one icon, always in the same place on the taskbar. win
Something isn't right with your system if things like notepad2 and vent are asking for admin
I've never had them ask. In fact, I can't think of anything that I run daily that UAC asks about, and I run as a standard user.
I've heard (with no concrete proof) that if someone says "hey, so-and-so is posting shit about the beta" and can prove it they'll look into it and give the rat beta access after they get rid of the guy leaking stuff.
The alien ship part of the game was almost unbearable. I was so sick of that goddamn maze about 1/4 of the way through it
Other than that, Crysis was pretty good