If you click on a + to expand a node, it scrolls, GREAT Idea... now if I want to collapse it, I have to move my mouse and scroll to try to find it again. I give this a 0 on the 1 - 10 scale of good moves. Did Ballmer come up with this one? Whats better is that this applies to other apps that use the treeview too. Can You say MS SUCKS?
How about the good old find file if you right click on a folder? Oh, wait, that doesn't even exist now unless you install the windows search component. Brilliant. Why the fuck do I need windows search if I only want to search in "this" folder? I know why... Cause MS realizes I'm too stupid to know any better. Whats worse is the search sucks anyway. 1/2 the time I'm looking for something it can't find it. Yet, if I use something like UltraEdit and search in files / folders there it is... Cygwin command line utils can find it... but low and behold, MS and all their wisdom and bloat can not find it.
Here's another good one. "Pin to start menu" Lets say you have an app that takes some command line arguments and you need to configure it more than 1 time and want a shortcut to it to show up in your start menu. Good luck. MS realizes you're stupid and it decides to modify 1 of them and makes it identical to the other. Now you have 2 items that do the same thing. Boy, that's handy. Now try to find where MS saves this shit on the Hard Disk... You'll end up perusing a ton of folders that you don't have access too and things like "web" "local low" "roaming" "internet explorer". Now, why the fuck would a shortcut show up in a location like these? Great naming conventions MS.
Here's where my shortcut to my favorite text editor UltraEdit goes.
C:\Users\userX\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\StartMenu. Yup. Shortcuts to text editors should definately go under Internet Explorer. FOR CHRISTS SAKE!
By the way... why is there a "Documents and Settings" and a "Users" folder? 2 is better than 1?
Ever use the window button? It's great. You hit the window button and you start typing the name of something you want to run. However, if what you type is not in some mythical list of shit MS has decided to index, yet it is in your path, MS won't know what to run. Very useful piece of shit UI you guys got here.
How about the task bar? You use to be able to right click on a button (running app) and with your left hand hit c on the keyboard. This would close the window. Nice, easy... Now, it's way better. You can right click on it. Move your mouse to the left or up and then click on the "close window" thing, great... more moves to do the same job. I love being less efficient. It's the MS way.
Oh my god, I could go on, but this venting has already helped me so much.
Hey Steve. If you haven't realized it yet... the reason that Mac came back so hard is that they based their os on unix and it's organization. Can you say Organization? It's not just a place you work. It's how you should work.
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