wonder from whom you did quote that
and the window size is fully customizable in your profile.

and no, network arcitechture shouldn't adapt and change totally just because windows keeps changing.
w2k already introduces such buggies (with autoIP) with not disabling what perfectly told in settings it to disable.
XP goes yet one more step on the not working road.

but, everything that microsoft can't or don't want to fix themselfes, we ppl surely can.
finding the solutions just may take longer as it requires reverse-engineering.
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