Windows 7 gets sooooo much love. Okay, you finally cleaned up the kernel. Well, we'll see. At work I still have a dozen security nanny applications. But the desktop. What the hell? People say Microsoft has a great research division and tons of usability people. WHERE ARE THEY?
The Windows 7 tendency to hide the Menu in every application. WHAT THE HELL? Why? Why? Whhyyyy? You're relying on people to know to press ALT to get to the menu? Does microsoft not want people to use anything except toolbars in applications? Toolbars rely in intuitive icon design, and intuitive icon design hasn't even left the stone age. 40 years of GUIs and 20 years of the web, and icons still are incomprehensible until maybe, possibly, once you've clicked on the magic button to see what it does, only then may you understand what an open door symbol actually means in some random application. You need the menu, you idiots.
The main toolbar yanked out so many features from the XP toolbar, it isn't even funny. Not having a folder-based organization capability for nesting your start menu links? Am I the only one that had dozens of environment-specific and project-specific links for SSH, html pages, documentation, etc that I would organize in the start menu for two-click access? I'm stuck dragging some folder called "Launch" to the toolbar, and since they wont allow you to drag around the order, guess what? I have to do:
000-link1
010-link2
011-link3
020-link4
Old School BASIC programmers should be nodding their heads right now.
The search functions. I used advanced search and find-in-files a lot. A LOT. Where are they? Gone? And when I search for a file that's in a bunch of deep folders, it gives me four results... and no way to resize the columns so I can see what folder they are in:
That is so bad. Soooooooooooooo bad. Basically, Microsoft is begging everyone to install Google Desktop Search. Oh yeah, and trust us with Bing, we really know how to make search work. See how well we did it on the desktop? Idiots.
Other random crap on the Explorer: As you navigate down the folder tree on the right pane, it doesn't auto-expand the tree in the left pane? WHY NOT? I will give them some cudos for the breadcrumb path. That's not bad. And getting rid of most of the "My " folders and just doing , such as Pictures Videos Music, etc. Hey, it only took you 10 fucking years to stop doing that. Morons. They still do ProgramFiles though. Facepalm.
It's like they wanted to do half of what Nautilus does on Gnome, but got in a huge argument and just stopped finishing it. Basically, it's like a cake being cooked by divorcing parents that spent the entire time making it screaming at each other, not even noticing it was overcooked, they misspelled your name, and didn't put the right number of candles.
Microsoft continues to not care about their customers, and then play mystified, vulnerable child when people call them on their decades-old bullshit. When your company is basically symbolized by a narcissistic, infantile, manipulative, spoiled brat for 20 years, you've got a problem.
I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised.
