7, I Hate!

DeaconFrost said:

Imperfect1 said:

Why don't you contact Microsoft and TELL THEM what upsets you???? Who knows, you might even help to get some changes made!!!

I will guarantee you that not one of these weekly ranters we have participated in the Windows 7 beta program and gave their feedback and comments. Not one.

You're right. To be a beta tester you must have a mind that is open to change. Enough said!

It seems hard to believe that a select few individuals would have seen all of these issues, while the rest of the millions that were part of the beta simply missed them or forgot to mention them. I'm pretty sure the changes that were made were for a reason, whether we truly understand it or not. In fact, some of the changes might be a baby step for what is to come with future versions of Windows.

Imperfect1 said:

That's really sad and unfortunate too, because the problems many of these people were ranting about were, for the most part, legitimate complaints that could've been/and should've been addressed by Microsoft.

Yes, It's interesting that most of the complaints are about libraries, probably the biggest and best change to windows file handling ever. Microsoft should have publicized the change much better and the help system is very basic. They took a fair bit of researching before I found them usable but now I am a big fan. The implementation however is, in places, flawed and inconsistent. There are too many restrictions and cases where if you use one feature you cant use another, but at least it's a start.

I guess what surprises me about Libraries, is how simply they are to ignore. There is no reason to have to use them if you don't want to. For some things, I use them quite a bit. For others, I haven't bothered to build a library and instead just do it the normal way and it's no problem whatsoever switching back and forth between the two.

pparks1 said:

I guess what surprises me about Libraries, is how simply they are to ignore. There is no reason to have to use them if you don't want to. For some things, I use them quite a bit. For others, I haven't bothered to build a library and instead just do it the normal way and it's no problem whatsoever switching back and forth between the two.

+1 I agree, i don't use them all the time either but they are there if i need them:)

There is a basic problem for every (operating system) developer. If he propagates too many legacy functions, the system gets bloated and people will complain about that. It is also a cost problem for later maintenance. If he skips legacy functions, other people will complain that they cannot do things they used to do.

The developer is really caught between a rock and a hard place. Since I have done this for 35 years, I can assure you that a tremendous amount of thought goes into this one area.

The other problem is that some new function may make it impossible to continue an old function. E.g. some of the new Win7 screen functions seem to have prevented to carry forward the dock function from pushing a folder to the top of the screen.

There is also the size of the community to take into account. I too was a developer for many years fortunately for a relatively small group. Even here, where we had close integration with the users, there were always some were not happy to change the way things were done.