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I will not love Windows anymore unless they show file extensions by default, allow scrolling areas without click to give it focus first, allow changing the volu

I will not love Windows anymore unless they show file extensions by default, allow scrolling areas without click to give it focus first, allow changing the volume by using the scrollwheel over the speaker tray icon, don't have such a small limit for amount of characters in the command line, have incremental history in the command line, and other things like that. I'm not their target user.

meaty 14y ago
Seriously you can turn all that on if you want. My keyboard has a volume control. And use PowerShell ISE as your command line.
Zigurd 14y ago
Imagine the conversation at Apple or Google: "We can bring a tablet to market that has file extensions in the user's face, and a command line, and part of the UI needs a pointing device." "lolwut? You're serious? Get out of here!" Microsoft is still dragging too much untablety legacy tail to make a successful tablet. Courier was the right idea. Windows everywhere isn't. The result wll be a rearguard that only slightly slows the decline of the PC by dressing it up as a tablet, and leaves Microsoft without a competitive tablet product. You can see this in sharp relief in the market failure of the ARM-based, neither-fish-nor-fowl Surface.
- XorNot 14y ago
  The PC has been in alleged decline for 15 years now. The reality is its not going anywhere, other complementary technologies are simply rising to the same level of penetration. Tablets are not replacements for a full computing environment, and never will be.
  - Roboprog 14y ago
    Docking. Station.
  - Zigurd 14y ago
    Re "Tablets are not replacements for a full computing environment, and never will be." How many PC users actually use or need "a full computing environment?"
- Roboprog 14y ago
  I'm glad that I can get a terminal to play with on my Android phone, though, to peer behind the curtain when I want to.
nnq 14y ago
5min to enable all that (and use this for the mouse wheel thingy if you don't have a fancy mouse driver with a zillion options config panel: http://antibody-software.com/web/software/software/wizmouse-makes-your-mouse-wheel-work-on-the-window-under-the-mouse/ http://antibody-software.com/web/software/software/wizmouse-...). The only UI that is more eye-candy-loving-power-user friendly than Windows' is KDE, but it's always buggy as hell, all versions on all systems.
illuminate 14y ago
"allow changing the volume by using the scrollwheel over the speaker tray icon" Left-click the same icon, then use the scrollwheel?

meaty 14y ago

Seriously you can turn all that on if you want. My keyboard has a volume control. And use PowerShell ISE as your command line.

Zigurd 14y ago

Imagine the conversation at Apple or Google: "We can bring a tablet to market that has file extensions in the user's face, and a command line, and part of the UI needs a pointing device." "lolwut? You're serious? Get out of here!" Microsoft is still dragging too much untablety legacy tail to make a successful tablet. Courier was the right idea. Windows everywhere isn't. The result wll be a rearguard that only slightly slows the decline of the PC by dressing it up as a tablet, and leaves Microsoft without a competitive tablet product. You can see this in sharp relief in the market failure of the ARM-based, neither-fish-nor-fowl Surface.

XorNot 14y ago
The PC has been in alleged decline for 15 years now. The reality is its not going anywhere, other complementary technologies are simply rising to the same level of penetration. Tablets are not replacements for a full computing environment, and never will be.
- Roboprog 14y ago
  Docking. Station.
- Zigurd 14y ago
  Re "Tablets are not replacements for a full computing environment, and never will be." How many PC users actually use or need "a full computing environment?"
Roboprog 14y ago
I'm glad that I can get a terminal to play with on my Android phone, though, to peer behind the curtain when I want to.

nnq 14y ago

5min to enable all that (and use this for the mouse wheel thingy if you don't have a fancy mouse driver with a zillion options config panel: http://antibody-software.com/web/software/software/wizmouse-makes-your-mouse-wheel-work-on-the-window-under-the-mouse/ http://antibody-software.com/web/software/software/wizmouse-...). The only UI that is more eye-candy-loving-power-user friendly than Windows' is KDE, but it's always buggy as hell, all versions on all systems.

illuminate 14y ago

"allow changing the volume by using the scrollwheel over the speaker tray icon" Left-click the same icon, then use the scrollwheel?