1. I purposely said "be overcome" instead of "be fixed my MS" to ask if things that are inconvenient for the user will be fixed without blaming MS. Of course I mention MS... they made Vista! IMO it's like me saying "sony ericsson".
Its almost never about what you say, but how you say it. Had you phrased the question something along the lines of "Will the hardware vendors ever get their crap together and write good drivers for Vista?", this may have started out significantly differently. I do not know you and cannot read your mind. I can only go by what you give me. In this instance, you put MS in the topic, and ask a standard question without any specifics. How was I to know you didn't know the problems were not from the MS camp?
2. I meant to use "so much" in the same way as one might verbally ask this question where "so much" could mean "as much as" therefore making the question ask "Do you think Microsoft will find a way of keeping the security it has at the moment without using up as much CPU/RAM as it does?
I accept that this still implies the security features are demanding... Well I noticed a difference in the speed of a vista PC when the security features were turned off.
See, clarification does wonders. Remember, in the text based world, the more information you give, the better.