You Windows users are really gonna have a few things to get used to if you grab Vista next week when it’s released…
Steve Wiseman lists the 5 sins of Vista…
1. The file browsing is broken. The address bar at the top of the window shows websites, not links for Desktop / My Documents / etc., and not recently browsed folders. If you are bold enough to click on one of those sites, you get the following message:
Feh… Nice job…
2. The new start menu isn’t as smart as the old one. He gives a good example: In the old start menu, you can type C:\ in the run dialog and it’ll open explorer and point at the C:\ folder. Now, it tries to guess the app you meant (in Steve’s case, it opens up Remote Desktop!?).
3. The formerly clean Networking interface is now a disaster area with important features buried that used to be readily apparent (someone go help the man find the IP for his WiFi card!)
4. I’m going to quote steve directly on this one… He thinks Windows Search is broken…
Same as it ever was. Ever since they started messing with Windows Search in Windows XP Service Pack 2 I have hated it. It has fooled me so many times into thinking a file was gone, or nothing existed that matched by search criteria.
Now when I want a simple search for any file that contains the string ‘IntelliAdmin’ I can’t do it. Instead of fixing what they broke in XP SP2, they just took it out! I want a simple search program that will search for a file on my hard drive (Hint to Microsoft – Every file, not just the types you know about like Word and Excel files) that contains a specific string of letters. It can’t be done any more with windows search. I find myself going to a command line these days and doing a wildcard directory search to get better results. How sad.
5. Better copying? Nope…
Sure they have made the interface look cooler, a snazzy progress bar here and there. What about a robust copy? I absolutely hate it when my 5000 file copy gets killed half way through because 1 single file can’t be opened. Or better yet, how about when I start a copy to a remote file share that is not responding – and all of explorer locks up. Yes it still does this in Vista. I have had to kill explorer on a few occasions over the last month and a half. In this regard Microsoft thinks it is perfectly fine for the UI to become unresponsive when the network is down.
That’s something that’s such a nuissance, I would hope someone at Microsoft would’ve fixed it. I constantly copy files around my office network and if one file craps out, it’s done and I have to jump back in, delete the copied folder. Find the file that won’t copy and either delete it or unselect it, and then start the copy all over again. I won’t even get into how many times I’ve had the “explorer croaks on network copies” issue.
Apparently, Vista is more a cosmetic improvement than anything else. Shame. Vista could’ve been great.
via Christopher Null
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