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65 More Windows Vista Mistakes

May 28, 2006 at 5:26 pm · in Microsoft, Software · Comments

I just couldn’t leave well enough alone. Even after my problems with Outlook 2007, and my original feedback on Windows Vista, I went deeper into Windows Vista’s second beta. This time, I didn’t concentrate so much on the font issues (so that I couldn’t be accused of being such a nitpicker). Don’t get me wrong; there are still thousands of UI oversights still sitting within Windows. I intend to prove that beyond a shadow of a doubt. I don’t just want to hear about how some of my problems were addressed - I won’t rest until all of them are. I keep being told that a lot of it will be happening soon, but… I’ll believe it when I see it. This isn’t just about fonts and icons, my friends - it’s about something I intend on using as my primary operating system for the next… seven (?) years.

  1. Why can’t it detect when I have a .com on the end of a domain in the “Start Search” field - working much like CTRL+Enter does in IE or Firefox?
  2. If Windows is moving slowly, I can see the stop/refresh button in the Windows Explorer jump. At least, the graphic inside the button starts lower than normal - then jumps up to the proper (aligned, centered) position.
  3. Dragging object icons - strange transparency issue still exists. Looks like hell.
  4. For some reason, many dialogs/windows have a black line between the glass and the top of the inner-portion of the window. If this is due to me changing the size of my title bar - you’ve got a serious bug to fix.
  5. Why, if I change my Shell Dlg font in XP to Segoe UI, the default size is 8pt - in Vista, it’s 9pt - and that REALLY screws things up. Is there no way to set it to 8pt anywhere? Please make the hook?
  6. Would somebody please smack the person who thought that white Battery/Power and Volume icons were en vogue?
  7. Why won’t you let me exit out of the location settings dialog if I don’t want to enter an area code first? Even by confirming that I don’t want to do it yet, you keep the window open. This might be tied into how I found out - by trying to get a Business number within Outlook. This may very well be Outlook’s fault, not your own (in which case, that’s another red checkmark in the Outlook 2007 column).
  8. I was able to get ReadyBoost working, I think. If there’s an easy way to watch benchmarks, I’m not finding it. Tried looking for a “Benchmarks” option in the Start Menu, but it’s just not obvious to me. I found it once, but I’ll be damned if I can find it again. Tried looking in the most logical places, too - including within the Task Manager.
  9. The ReadyBoost tab should display information like “You’ve sped up your system by 10% by using ReadyBoost today.” Wouldn’t that be nice to know? It’d also be nice if you could tell me the relative speed of my current USB memory stick - so that I could find out if there were faster ones available.
  10. Why doesn’t ReadyBoost information show up in the System Properties? Ya know, Control Panel | System? There, it still shows me running “1.0 GB of RAM” - but it’s not accounting for the flash RAM I’ve just inserted.
  11. System Information (if that’s Vista’s) is calling on a different point size of a font. I believe it’s Segoe UI, but it’s awfully 9pt Tahoma’ish to me.
  12. The Event Viewer has tons of useful information. If only you’d stop calling on Microsoft Sans Serif throughout, and remember the damn window size every time I open/close the app. Tried looking for the benchmarks / system resource view here, too - still can’t find it.
  13. Sometimes when I’m fiddling with the Visual Appearance, I lose the ability to turn on transparency. I have to reboot the system before that feature works again (even so, I have to go in and re-toggle it a few times to get it to work).
  14. Why aren’t you doing this?
  15. Thank you for pseudo-updating the default selection of backgrounds / wallpapers. However, where’s the dual monitor support? Seriously, you have nothing in here for dual monitors. What if I want one wallpaper to be X and the other wallpaper to be Y? What if I want to stretch wallpapers on both screens to each independent resolution? I have 1600×1200 on one monitor right now, 1680×1050 on another. Non-tiled dual monitor wallpapers look like hell in this scenario. Fix it.
  16. I love the “img15.jpg placeholder” wallpaper. I say it’s a keeper, even if you make it hidden somewhere in the system where only the geekiest geeks could find it. Sad thing is, the “img15.jpg placeholder” was designed better than just about any other graphical system element I’ve run across.
  17. The Personalization dialog’s top nav section seems to have a background color applied to it (that’s not matching the background image). Same holds true for the System dialog (each found as a subsection of ‘Control Panel’). Oh, and Power Options, apparently. Why in some and not in others. At least if you’re gong to screw something up, screw it up all over the place please?
  18. Mobility Center is not customizable. Why can’t I save settings to different profiles? Wouldn’t that make sense? Jeez, even my cell phone has profiles contingent on setting.
  19. You only have seven settings in the Windows Mobility Center - can’t you just make up an 8th one, or are we really going to have to stare at this glaring empty space in the lower right-hand corner? My suggestion: do away with the separation lines altogether, flood the entire area with white space, and for PETE’S SAKE round the corners like you have the outside of the window!!!
  20. What’s starting to drive me nuts is your inconsistent application of internal window margins. For example, the distance between the top border of an Explorer window and the first window element (the search bar) is different than the distance between the top border of the Windows Mobility Center and the first window element (in this case, the panels). Open Notepad, and you’ll notice another distance altogether. Who’s in charge of looking at this stuff!? You really expect someone to fork over $100+ for this?
  21. I don’t mind seeing the circled question mark icon in a window. However, I DO mind that you keep putting it in different places. Again, let’s compare and contrast the Windows Explorer window and a Windows Mobility Center window.
  22. Why can’t I easily switch to the Recording options in the new Volume dialog? Seriously, why?
  23. Why do the Volume dialog’s sliders have a boxy shadow behind them? Looks horrible.
  24. I made this point a couple of bugs ago, but it really deserves to be called out here. Are things going to be curved or not? If you are going to curve the edge of Windows elements, then curve all of them. Not some of them - all of them. This would include every single possible edge you find in the OS. Buttons, borders, backgrounds, etc.
  25. In the new (file) Open dialog, why does the “File name” field sport a different height than the “File type” field? Then, why are both of them sporting different heights than the breadcrumb and search bars at the top of the dialog. Gah!!! Do I need to buy someone a ruler… and slap them on the wrist with it a few times?
  26. Again, in this Frankenstein of a file Open dialog, I have one several opportunities to press an upward/downward arrow. I press the one in the Search box (it’s one width, producing a menu typical of what I find throughout other programs). I press the one in the object area (seeing the width of the arrow button is fatter, producing another style of drop-down for object sorting and filtering). I press the one for the Folders view (seeing that it’s now a circle button, and that produces inconsistent padding both above and below it). I think you just made Baby Jesus cry.
  27. In the open dialog’s breadcrumb bar, sometimes the file name (or path) gets cut off. No way of seeing what’s past a certain point. I don’t see a handlebar to make that area wider, but it should either stretch to a better length on its own or provide some kind of tooltip to show me the truncated information.
  28. Hey, would someone please fix the fact that the Task Manager’s Applications Pane has a horizontal scroll bar that never goes away - no matter what you do? It serves no purpose and has been annoying the hell out of me since Windows 2000. WHY IS IT THERE?!
  29. In the Task Manager, why can’t I right-click a column heading to add other columns - I can do that in an Explorer window - why not here as well? Did the Task Manager programmer not pay his Tribute to the king?
  30. Why, in the Task Manager, when I hover over a truncated title, do I not see a tooltip with the hidden information?
  31. Who’s duck do I have to sick to make this easier to do?
  32. I turned off the Security Center. Why is it still showing up in my system tray?
  33. Clicking the “Adjust indexing options” in the Performance Rating and Tools dialog (subsection of ‘Control Panel’) does nothing.
  34. On my laptop, the Power Options should automatically go into Power Saver mode when I’m not plugged into AC power. Right now, I have to toggle everything manually. Likewise, it should go High Performance when I’m plugged into an external power source.
  35. You have to figure out what else to do when it comes to needing more information in a Control Panel option. For the first hour or so, I didn’t even see the scroll bar in many panels. For example, Control Panel | Power Options | System Settings is just tall enough to warrant a vertical scrollbar. However, it’s pointless - there’s nothing else to show down there but (admittedly properly measured) white space.
  36. Why am I still seeing old Windows dialogs? Like, for the Screen Saver option in the Control Panel. Shouldn’t that be a subsection of the Personalization applet?
  37. There we go! I found the “Performance Diagnostic Console” finally. This is nice, but you wanna talk about scrollbar overkill? I’ve got more scrollbars in this single window than I think actually exist. Thus, creating what I like to call a “paradox.”
  38. Reliability Monitor in the Performance Diagnostic Console is pretty nice. A few controls and images are awfully old, but the tool itself might prove useful in troubleshooting scenarios.
  39. OMG. The Performance Monitor section of the Performance Diagnostic Console is calling on the System (or Terminal) font?!
  40. Why can’t I drag & drop the Resource Overview (in the Performance Diagnostics section of the Performance Diagnostic Console) into the Sidebar? Either all four, or each one individually?
  41. This is weird. I’m looking at the Personalization dialog here. The status bar is turned on, claiming… “2 items.” Really? I see more than two items here, so what “2 items” is it referring to? Conversely, the status bar claims to be seeing “0 items” in the System dialog of the Control Panel. Who’s seeing what?
  42. I know you said it wasn’t going to make it, but can someone please tell me why I don’t have a slider control or pause button in the Windows Explorer copy function?
  43. Why, when resizing a dialog like “Problem Reports and Solutions,” do I see white space appear in the window title area - specifically, on the side that I’m moving back and forth? Other areas of the window are being painted irregularly, too. Looks fine when I stop movement, but the actual movement is jarring to the window elements (apparently). Do you not expect anybody to resize - or do you expect them to excuse this kind of UI quirk?
  44. In the Start Menu, why does an empty folder cascade out to “(empty)”? If you’re going to do that, at least shade “(empty)” a light gray instead of black.
  45. Can you please require people to reference the same 16×16 help icon that I keep seeing everywhere? I’ve seen about three different versions of it - one polished, one plain, another completely different than these other two. Sounds like all of you need help with it.
  46. The SendTo context menu seems to be calling on another kind of layout (compressed, compared to the overly-spacious Windows default). So, too, are the submenus of the Start Menu rightmost pane (Games, Favorites, Computer, etc.). AGAIN, a completely different style is being applied to the New context menu (Folder, Shortcut, etc.). Yet another style is being applied to the Organize menu in the Windows Explorer! IMHO, all menus should look and feel the same throughout the entire OS. If you want a baseline, look no further than the submenus of the Start Menu.
  47. Why don’t I get a larger thumbnail preview of a document or image that I have on my desktop? Seriously, why? Is 128 MB of video RAM not enough?
  48. Okay, now THIS is just funny (and sad at the same time). The Start Menu: nice default view, the margins between each recently-opened program shortcut seem fine - until you toggle the “All Programs” feature. Now, the margins between each of the Start Menu items is smaller. It’s noticeable. Small difference, but still quite noticeable. Egad, if you can’t even get it right in the same area - what hope does the rest of Windows have?
  49. The separator bar between “All Programs” / “Back” changes widths by a few pixels on each end when you toggle the view. Again, I don’t know whether to laugh or to cry. I’ve been waiting seven years for THIS?!
  50. Just read a post on Channel 9 referencing my original list of Vista problems… “Wow, that’s the most annually retentive post I’ve ever read… Can you imagine what this person does when they actually find a problem as opposed to “OMFG BATMAN THAT BUTTON IS NOT PIXEL ALIGNED!!!1!!” I responded: “Yeah, and it’s attitudes like this which cause potentially ‘great’ products to come across as ‘okay.’ If that kind of sloppiness is happening on the surface, I cringe when I think about what’s going on underneath.”
  51. The separator bar between the Start Menu Pin section and the list of recently-opened programs has a different “vspace” than the separator bar at the bottom of the Start Menu separating the “All Programs” toggle with the list of recently-opened programs.
  52. Why does the system tray battery icon have an abnormal left margin to it? Breaks the flow here.
  53. How come Firefox runs faster and better on Vista than IE7 does?
  54. “Search the Index” option in the Start Menu’s “Start Search” field - what Index? Who’s Index? What’s an Index?
  55. To piggyback the prior issue, “Search the Internet” - is that Live’s version of the Internet or Google’s? Can this be toggled to Google easily? If so, where? If not, why not?
  56. I hit it on my first list, but the Windows Calendar UI is amazingly pathetic and inconsistent. First, why is the Search field formatted differently than it is in the Windows Explorer? Second, why is the Search field slapped up against the right border of the window!? Third, why is the view button not working like the View button in the Windows Explorer? Fourth, Why is the calendar formatted differently than it is in the Windows Date & Settings applet? Fifth, why is the “traditional” menu turned on in this program by default? Sixth, why is there virtually no top margin to the area within the Calendars section of the Navigation pane? Sixth, is there going to be a plan to better integrate this within Outlook - so that the two could work seamlessly between each other so that I don’t have to get an Exchance server just to share information between myself and others - and so that I don’t have to update two sets of Tasks and Appointments!? *sigh*
  57. Why, and pardon me if this is wrong of me to ask, can’t I manage all my Windows Live accounts from a Control Panel applet?
  58. Man, there’s so much going on inside the Search Index window - it’s like I’ve died and gone to short-attention span heaven. The only thing that’s missing is (seriously) the kitchen sink.
  59. The Search Index window’s “Add a title” field text seems to be improperly aligned - as does its little magnifying glass graphic.
  60. Why can’t I turn off the text and/or icons in the new Windows toolbar? I hate seeing the double-arrows when there are more options. I can make it with the icons, thank you very much.
  61. The “in” field seems to be a different height than the “Add a title” field (and I’m still not sure what “Add a title” even means).
  62. Why can’t I choose what meta information displays in the Windows Vista Preview Pane?
  63. In Windows Explorer Views, I should never see a horizontal scrollbar. Instead, you should follow Outlook’s lead (!) and automatically push the information together into a single chunk rather than force me to look to the right or left to get to the information I’ve asked to see. And don’t tell me to maximize the window - that’s a cop out, and you know it.
  64. Who decided that the progress bar would be green? Why isn’t that themable? I’d assume it’s a graphic - and if not, then why can’t I make it some other color?
  65. Whoa. The Windows Easy Transfer dialog to warn you that the firewall is blocking the program from running appears to have fallen out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on its way down. You look at it and tell me why I’d even say such a thing. Seems that other Yes/No dialogs have fallen out of the same tree in this tool as well.
  66. Why is the Favorites folder icon the only folder icon that doesn’t have a folder icon in it? It’s just this gigantic star. I think it’s fine that way, but if you’re not going to have a folder image in the Favorites folder icon, then get rid of the other special folders’ folder icons.
  67. Where’s the “Export all possible Windows settings” feature? I think it’s supposed to be there for documents, emails, photos, etc. - but what about my generic windows settings?

Okay, I lied. 67 instead of 65. That’s enough feedback for Vista in one afternoon. I’m going back to picking apart Outlook 2007 now, and will push you back to my first Vista list if this wasn’t enough.

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Hi,
I have been a Windows user since 1995. I recently did something very bold. I downloaded and am using Linux. I don’t know the system well, but I like it.

I have wearied of Microsoft and it just seems to me that the company is dodard-headed (sp) when it comes to really building a very responsive system.

It just seemed I was spending inordinate amounts of money and time just to protect my personal property through a system that is not well made and from front-end expense to associated security programs just to use it confidently seemed, well, stupid to this user. I wrote and told Microsoft of my decision. Not much has been said, though one tech said she was sorry to hear of my decision (three computers, all three with MS products, hardware/software installed).

Microsoft may one day grow up and adults will run the company.

Until then, I am no longer purchasing another MS OS.

Allen Langley

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Hi everyone.

Have a look at the XGL technology in Linux. Just google up “xgl video”.

I have personally tried this stuff (using Kororaa 0.2 live CD) on Pentium III 550MHz, 256MB RAM and humble Nvidia Mx440 graphics card. And it rocks. Why are hardware requirements for Vista and Aero so ridiculously high?

Suse Enterprise Linux will be out in August featuring stunning 3D efects, transparency, wobbly windows and other stunts.

How come a bunch of smelly hairy hackers can beat multi bilion company?

Gill - May 29, 2006 @ 1:39 pm

Nice list… in fact, i already came across of these myself, certainly the ready-boost related issues look familiar…

Eric the Red - May 29, 2006 @ 1:42 pm

Somebody has waaay to much time on his hands.

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Mjinga Wawa - May 29, 2006 @ 7:28 pm

I suppose #53 really nailed it: “How come Firefox runs faster and better on Vista than IE7 does?”

Perhaps that’s because they’ve already worked through their spaghetti code issue, the same sort of issue that IE’s got as a result of being embedded in Windows for the past few iterations thereof.

Blogger: Post a Comment - May 29, 2006 @ 7:47 pm

[…] 6:20 PM (I feel compelled to slap together a quick post of what was in my queue to avoid any dwelling on a long kiss goodbye or such - it’s not goodbye it’s just a… mini-Mini-Microsoft for a while. This is an example of what I intend to post for a while, as soon as enough floats to the top of my mind. It may not look any different to you, but it’s super different for me…)When I read Chris Pirillo’s Vista bug feedback (he’s also done some intense Outlook 2007 feedback), the first question that came to my mind was: is this the polish tax we pay for automation? If our former STEs (now SDETs-or-else) had been focusing on the black-box entire Vista experience, would the following issues had been entered and fixed?Windows Vista Feedback ~ Chris Pirillo65 More Windows Vista Mistakes ~ Chris PirilloOne commenter writes:Hey Who da’, did you see the article about Xerox in the Sunday Seattle Times (business section). They promoted the head of HR to run the company. The first thing she did was to hold a series of employee town halls. Then she told executives who weren’t with her to leave.It’s a reprint from the WSJ but I couldn’t find it online.Forgot one more thing, she downsized Xerox from 90,000 to 55,000.Ooo, she is ready for a Microsoft-sized challenge. I like the way Ms. Mulcahy handles numbers. Actually, the quickest article I could find was on C|Net: Breathing new life into Xerox Newsmakers CNET News.com.Finally, a non-Microsoftie VP in product development, MrMichevous, spent time to write up a long, illuminating comment looking at the issues brought up here quite often. From the other-side. It’s a small study in The School of Hard Knocks and Just the Way Things Work, especially the following snippet:I’d like to add my take on the question you posed earlier: “Let’s say you walk into your office one morning. You reflect on your team before going through the morning email and have the realization that one of your reports (who perhaps has done a good job making you feel like an excellent manager) was in fact playing the system like this FAQ calls out. Or worse. What would you do?”Simple. If they weren’t good at their own job, I’d counsel or fire them (and have done so in the past). But if they were good at their own job, I’d promote them.I could hear the anguished screams of MM readers as I typed that last sentence. Why, they scream, would you allow style to to win over substance? Simple. To reach the higher levels, both style and substance is required. Despite what engineers would like to think, getting to Director is only partially a function of how technically good you are at your own job. I recently promoted two people in my own org to Director. Predictably, within a week two others came to my desk asking when they could make Director, since they had been there as long as the other guys. When I asked them why they thought I had promoted the other two, they sat quietly - they were unable to articulate why I had made the decision. I explained to them that at the higher levels, the intangible qualities are as important as the tangible ones - the ability to walk into a room and “own” it, the ability to summarize complex concepts succinctly so that senior execs can understand them, the ability to manage their own boss.Mini-Microsoft Microsoft […]

ScottK's Alter-blog - May 29, 2006 @ 9:11 pm

inconsistancies in Vista that may seem to be nit-picking to some, but I have to agree with nearly everything he said in his feedback. This kind of review, posted publicly, is critical to adding the “spit and polish” to Vista. If that wasn’t enough, Chris went on to point-out 65 (or is it 67, Chris? ) more mistakes than he had listed on the original feedback Granted, Windows Vista is still not ready for release, and there are a few rough edges that need to be dealt with, but in time Windows Vista will quite simply put the critics and nay-sayers to shame. I’ve seen

Concerned Citizen - May 29, 2006 @ 10:05 pm

Some of these take very simple investigation to understand.
Take Number 28 for instance: the horizontal scrollbar occurs because the “Status” column is too wide. Put your mouse where you think the edge on the right would be and drag left. It’ll make the horizontal scrollbar disappear. This occured most likely because the UI was designed flat while it’s rendered and calculated with 3D edges.
Numer 35: Between one of the various UIs, the sizing is correct.
In general, the problems occur due to inter-UI inconsistencies, not ignorance. The developers spend more time localizing languages than fixing curves. Nobody yells at Apple for an Windows iTunes UI that has no relationship to its environment. We should always look at priorities first.

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Anonymous - May 29, 2006 @ 11:15 pm

Since this post has now become famous on the internet, here’s some more suggestions. And I am not a beta tester so I dunno exactly how Vista beta 2 is but from what I’ve got to read so far….Someone please count them.

Get rid of dirty old-style dialogs from 3.1, replace all 256 color icons with better looking ones (you can learn from XPize)

Dont redesign dialogs and UIs just for the sake of it. it breaks familiarity with users who’re using Windows for years.

Applications which require updating:
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Command prompt
Accessibility-Set display to grayscale for colorblind users
Character Map

Calculator, Calculator Plus, PowerToy Calc and MS Student’s Graphing Calculator merged

Notepad
Paint
WordPad

Configuration files instead of registry, virtual registry for compatibility with legacy applications.

Make applications self-contained with no intermixing of application data like in the registry

AUTOMATOR AND IDE FOR BUILDING SCRIPTED-BASED APPLICATIONS WITH GUI
- No programming required for automation, natural language metaphor
- Drag and drop, event monitoring and recording
- Comprehensive and useful automation actions for workflow
- Save scripts as applications
- Custom action builder

Unique identification in the file system for shortcuts so that when the target gets deleted, shortcuts get deleted automatically

Sorting and filtering installed applications in the start menu by various parameters/attributes

Rename, save, move and copy working/busy (in-use) files

Remove character restrictions from filenames

Native ISO image support without mounting

Prevent file extension spoofing by compulsorily displaying extension when multiple extensions are present. Identify files based on content, not extension

Print Preview and Page scaling for all applications universally, printer presets, Print to PDF, PostScript and EPS, CONSISTENT PRINT DIALOGS

Customizable command prompt and Windows PowerShell elements
- Cursor style (not size) and color
- Line wrapping
- Completely customizable window title-process name, shell command name, TTY name, dimensions
- Custom keyboard shortcuts
- Custom fonts and custom formatting (line spacing, character spacing, anti-aliasing
- Window transparency
- Background transparency
- More flexible context-menu support
- Drag and drop to and from
- Server connection bookmarks
- Better command history and command completion
- Split screen
- Command prompt setting presets
- Unicode/UTF-8 support
- Auto-discovery of local servers
- Secure keyboard entry
- FTP, FXP, SFTP, SSH, Telnet protocols

Standard choose color box
- Color wheel
- RGB, CMYK, HSB sliders
- System-wide color picker with color values-RGB, CMYK, HSB
- Web safe colors
- Load, save and edit color palettes
- Spectrum or any arbitrary image
- Box of Crayons
- CIELAB / CIE XYZ (CIE 1931) support

Font ligatures, PostScript Type 3 fonts, Multiple Master font types, Installing fonts from preview, powerful font viewer, Font Collections, Activating and Deactivating fonts, font shadow details-Opacity, blur, offset, angle, Typography palette-Ligatures, Ornaments, Glyph, Variants, Old style numbers, Ordinals, Special character palette, Fine-grained control over the appearance of fonts and symbols

Keyboard Layout Viewer

More customizations on a per-user basis - All system wide operating system settings and access, application settings and access, hiding unavailable components rather than limiting, color profiles, Fonts, screen resolution (cant believe it’s still not there natively), localization, hardware preferences, screensavers, in short TRUE MULTI-USER OS

LOCKING AND UNLOCKING SYSTEM WIDE SETTINGS

Restrict access to third party applications

Evolved drag-and-drop:
- Drag and drop text in command prompt
- Drag to rearrange notification area icons

Exposé-like function

Central Password Management
- All passwords-Windows, applications and internet stored in a central encrypted database
- Protected access to database, fine-grained control for accessing the database by applications, no access by other users
- Protection against updated applications
- Custom information and passwords
- Password quality advisor

Integrated Search client
- RSS feed search within subscribed feeds
- Discovering new RSS feeds on the net
- Searching within a displayed feed (similar to Internet Explorer’s ‘Find on this page’)
- Searching online for yellow pages, white pages, stocks, weather, news, sports scores, airlines and flight schedules, contacts’ locations and maps, eBay listings
- Searching Microsoft Knowledge Base, TechNet, MSDN and other Microsoft websites

SECONDARY METADATA INDEXING - Analyzing the tone and pitch of music files to determine the genre, using speech recognition to extract the lyrics from a song, using OCR to index and search images, or analyzing a photographs to determine if it was a night or day shot, etc.

Windows Mail
- Slideshows with transitions for photo attachments
- Filtering the display of messages as per attribute
- Saved email searches
- 1-click saving of all attachments and multiple pictures
- Listening to podcasts natively
- Threaded conversations in emails, “Jump to reply/next conversation”, expand and collapse conversations
- Windows Contacts, Windows Calendar, Windows Shared View integration
- Blogging support

Windows Media Player dynamic playlists by attribute/metadata tags

Windows Contacts
- Name pronunciation
- Reminders by contacts, not by date
- Designing and printing business cards/contact cards

Windows Live Messenger
- Multi-person audio-video conferencing
- Reflection beneath video conversation
- Buddy icon from webcam image

Make the clipboard more powerful and more flexible like Office’s clipboard

During file copying, a full path or starting….ending path can be displayed

Use verbs for dialog actions

When fonts are expanded as a menu, font file names are displayed! Get rid of old font installation dialog.

Crashed applications are not restarted system-wide

Start => Run box like IE’s address bar (Ctrl+Enter supported)

Better DVD Playback features like those in commercial third-party standalone DVD playback software

Better load/save dialog boxes so users wont need to use dialog box extenders

Better text to speech/screen reader

BlogsNow: tracking 7,981,166 weblogs - May 29, 2006 @ 11:24 pm

65 More Windows Vista Mistakes ~ Chris Pirillo

Kenny S - May 29, 2006 @ 11:36 pm

Chris you are losing too much time talking about specific small details.. and I know MS people like to hear things about specific details…
whenever I comment, they snap back… “what specific things you don’t like???”

However the problems come from another more fundamental level. I don’t want to lose time talking about such small details when the whole concepts are wrong in the first place!

So when I tell them I dont WANT to send in specific small bugs because you have to change other things first, then dont get it.
When I tell them those more fundamental changes they reply its too late for that, do you have any bugs to report?

I am sure many people send in feedback in earlier stages, but I believe they did not WANT feedback at first. Then only wanted debuggers. But is seems that MS insists on dancing its own way and producing a FrankenWin edition!

( Thats the reason the progress bar is green. Frankenstein has a green complexion) :-)

Snowball - The Blog - May 29, 2006 @ 11:37 pm

-And the must-read test of Paull Thurrott: http://www.winsupersite.com/re....._beta2.asp and on Neowin. -Some reports on Vista Compatibility: http://www.microsoft-watch.com.....46,00.asp. Here are65 (!) points to be looked at in the future… Sadly, the ATI drivers don’t seem to be supporting the radeon in my test-laptop :-( so no Glass experience at its fullest for me… [IMG]

elk - May 30, 2006 @ 12:49 am

lol man, i’m sorry for you if you think that icons and font are very important things for beta…

Tailrank - Top posts - May 30, 2006 @ 1:18 am

65 More Windows Vista Mistakes

65 More Windows Vista Mistakes - May 30, 2006 @ 1:28 am

[…] 65 More Windows Vista Mistakesprintable versionsection: windows, for your questions: IT forum, 29.5.2006Chris Pirillo went deeper into Windows Vista’s second beta and came up with 65 Windows Vista Mistakes (in his opinion) “It’s about something I intend on using as my primary operating system for the next… seven (?) years”, he writes. 1. Why can’t it detect when I have a .com on the end of a domain in the “Start Searchâ€? field - working much like CTRL+Enter does in IE or Firefox? 2. If Windows is moving slowly, I can see the stop/refresh button in the Windows Explorer jump. At least, the graphic inside the button starts lower than normal - then jumps up to the proper (aligned, centered) position. 3. Dragging object icons - strange transparency issue still exists. Looks like hell. 4. For some reason, many dialogs/windows have a black line between the glass and the top of the inner-portion of the window. If this is due to me changing the size of my title bar - you’ve got a serious bug to fix. 5. Why, if I change my Shell Dlg font in XP to Segoe UI, the default size is 8pt - in Vista, it’s 9pt - and that REALLY screws things up. Is there no way to set it to 8pt anywhere? Please make the hook? 6. Would somebody please smack the person who thought that white Battery/Power and Volume icons were en vogue? 7. Why won’t you let me exit out of the location settings dialog if I don’t want to enter an area code first? Even by confirming that I don’t want to do it yet, you keep the window open. This might be tied into how I found out - by trying to get a Business number within Outlook. This may very well be Outlook’s fault, not your own (in which case, that’s another red checkmark in the Outlook 2007 column). 8. I was able to get ReadyBoost working, I think. If there’s an easy way to watch benchmarks, I’m not finding it. Tried looking for a “Benchmarksâ€? option in the Start Menu, but it’s just not obvious to me. I found it once, but I’ll be damned if I can find it again. Tried looking in the most logical places, too - including within the Task Manager. 9. The ReadyBoost tab should display information like “You’ve sped up your system by 10% by using ReadyBoost today.â€? Wouldn’t that be nice to know? It’d also be nice if you could tell me the relative speed of my current USB memory stick - so that I could find out if there were faster ones available. 10. Why doesn’t ReadyBoost information show up in the System Properties? Ya know, Control Panel | System? There, it still shows me running “1.0 GB of RAMâ€? - but it’s not accounting for the flash RAM I’ve just inserted. Full article: 65 More Windows Vista Mistakes […]

M-Dollar - May 30, 2006 @ 1:46 am

Over the last week, blogger Chris Pirillo has been making headlines with his two detailed lists filled with Windows Vista feedback. While some may see Pirillo’s comments as heavy nitpicking, others may look at them as more reasons why Windows Vista still isn’t ready for primetime. Most of Pirillo

Gary - May 30, 2006 @ 4:19 am

Excellent review of Vista, I have the same questions. I can’t even get Office 2007 to run in Vista. I just love that Firefox is even faster though. IE7.0 is a long way from being Gold as is Vista. If Microsoft makes it’s release deadline, look for tons of patches and hotfixes.

Windows Vista Security News » 65 More Windows Vista Mistakes - Chris Prillo - May 30, 2006 @ 4:55 am

[…] I just couldn’t leave well enough alone. Even after my problems with Outlook 2007, and my original feedback on Windows Vista, I went deeper into Windows Vista’s second beta. This time, I didn’t concentrate so much on the font issues (so that I couldn’t be accused of being such a nitpicker). Don’t get me wrong; there are still thousands of UI oversights still sitting within Windows. I intend to prove that beyond a shadow of a doubt. I don’t just want to hear about how some of my problems were addressed - I won’t rest until all of them are. I keep being told that a lot of it will be happening soon, but… I’ll believe it when I see it. This isn’t just about fonts and icons, my friends - it’s about something I intend on using as my primary operating system for the next… seven (?) years. 65 More Windows Vista Mistakes ~ Chris Pirillo […]

Reformed Windows Fanatic - May 30, 2006 @ 6:16 am

This isn’t just about fonts and icons, my friends - it’s about something I intend on using as my primary operating system for the next… seven (?) years.

Consider jumping ship for OS X. It’s not perfect, but it’s a hell of a lot further down the road than Vista, and unless Apple really stumbles Microsoft has no serious chance of catching up to it in the next few years.

Life On the Wicked Stage: Act 2: Interesting Beta Reporting - May 30, 2006 @ 6:24 am

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MacDailyNews | Pirillo critiques Windows Vista with long lists of mistakes - May 30, 2006 @ 6:41 am

[…] “I spent a few hours with Windows Vista last night, per Jim Allchin’s request to send him feedback about what I discovered in terms of discrepancies and oversights. I took that task seriously, and stayed up late to compile this far-from-comprehensive list. I sent it to him at 1am, and I hope he doesn’t have a filter that keeps him from seeing it. I realize this list is lengthy, but… these reasons are exactly why I’m afraid Vista won’t be as polished as originally anticipated. I warn you, this list is long - and it’s only going to get longer, the deeper I dive into Vista Beta 2… If you think this list is long, check out my follow-up list of 65 More Windows Vista Mistakes,” Chris Pirillo blogs. MacDailyNews Note: Chris Pirillo is the founder of Lockergnome. He spent two years hosting the TechTV (now known as G4) television program Call for Help before parting ways from the company. He also hosted the first annual Call-for-Help-a-Thon on TechTV. Very long list here. 65 More Windows Vista Mistakeshere. Advertisements: • Introducing the super-fast, blogging, podcasting, do-everything-out-of-the-box MacBook.  Starting at just $1099 • Get the new iMac with Intel Core Duo for as low as $31 A MONTH with Free shipping! • Get the MacBook Pro with Intel Core Duo for as low as $47 A MONTH with Free Shipping! • Apple’s new Mac mini. Intel Core, up to 4 times faster. Starting at just $599. Free shipping. • iPod. 15,000 songs. 25,000 photos. 150 hours of video. The new iPod. 30GB and 60GB models start at just $299. Free shipping. • Connect iPod to your television set with the iPod AV Cable. Just $19. • iPod Radio Remote. Listen to FM radio on your iPod and control everything with a convenient wired remote. Just $49. […]

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The Week After WinHEC: All Eyes on Vista - May 30, 2006 @ 12:29 pm

[…] What’s left to say about Windows Vista the week after the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC)? Plenty. The ExtremeTech crew puts Vista Beta 2 through its gaming paces and gives the latest test build a mixed report card in terms of how well Vista currently runs a number of the most popular games. Vista tester and overall geek Chris Pirillo continues to compile his list of Vista fixes that Microsoft needs to make before the product ships (he’s well over 100 now). And eWEEK digs deep into BitLocker, Vista’s data-encryption feature, describing how BitLocker will work with Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chips. Meanwhile, Microsoft has set a date for Vista Service Pack 1: Expect it in the latter half of 2007, around the time Longhorn Server ships. […]

Erik Madsen - May 30, 2006 @ 12:51 pm

How are these important? Your tone seems way out of proportion with your complaint.

jkOnTheRun - May 30, 2006 @ 2:02 pm

[IMG Calc_plus] Actually, Chris asks much more than that in his two lists of issues with Microsoft Vista; both this one and this one are good reads. In the recent list, Chris asks why Microsoft Calculator Plus isn’t included with Vista (a valid question) and although we mentioned this app way back in 2004, it’s probably worth another mention.

Todd - May 30, 2006 @ 2:18 pm

Holy **** Chris! You da man! Seriously, I hope you come up with a few more lists; I was entertained. And I hope they take every one of your points seriously and fix them.

Tim - May 30, 2006 @ 5:24 pm

Microsoft is lucky to have someone like Chris still so interested in Windows that they would care to see the next release made right.

Sadly, for Chris, I doubt many of his frustrations will be fixed… and those that are will likely spawn entirely new frustrations.

Ed Bott's Windows Expertise - May 30, 2006 @ 6:09 pm

s an old saying: Anyone who loves the law or sausage should never watch either one being made. That probably applies to Windows, too. I thought about that as I read Chris Pirillo’s attention-getting two-part series Windows Vista Feedback and 65 More Windows Vista Mistakes. Is this what you get when you combine too much caffeine, a wee tendency toward obsessive-compulsiveness, and a finely honed sense of the controversial? Well, yes. It seems like half of the entries on the list are related to a font that

Tania - May 30, 2006 @ 7:00 pm

… might be time to give up and go OSX……

Joshua Flanagan - May 30, 2006 @ 8:54 pm

Regarding #28 - On the Applications tab, resize the Status column so that it is slightly smaller. Horizontal scroll bar goes away. (I know that doesn’t fix the “default” view, but you said “no matter what you do”…)

TechBlog: What you really want to know about Vista - May 31, 2006 @ 6:20 am

[…] Kinda related: Chris Pirillo lists 65 more mistakes he’s found in Vista. (Here’s his earlier list, which I mentioned last week.) […]

solomonrex - May 31, 2006 @ 7:10 am

Good! I’m glad someone looks at this stuff, too, so I’ll consider this a central place for Windows OS complaints.

Did they fix the ‘Pin to Start Menu’ dialog so you can store folder shortcuts there?

Are your ‘pinned’ shortcuts showing up in classic mode now?

Is the notifications area still flaky?

When you switch to ‘Large icons’ in the display settings, do you still have them spaced like small icons? Does the desktop still get screwed up?

Can we get a Start bar that works no matter what else the computer is doing?

How about a CD icon on the desktop that updates properly?

Cut down the options in the display dialog by about 2/3rds. Even Linux display options aren’t this byzantine. I gave up twice looking for the smooth fonts setting - without which I was getting a headache!

Can you have the “Windows Media Player Toolbar” setting a setting in Media Player instead of on the Toolbar? How many people understand that you can right-click the toolbar area, except accidentally?

Powershell should ship with every Vista.

Thank you.

Will Microsoft's Windows Live Relaunch Fizzle? - May 31, 2006 @ 9:29 am

[…] Microsoft has not issued any kind of publicly articulated roadmap, detailing what kinds of services have been and will be rolled out when. There still is no a single place where information on all (not just a few) of the Windows Live services resides. Ninety-nine percent of the time, Microsoft’s Windows Live moves have looked Google-reactive instead of user-proactive. At the risk of sounding like Vista tester Chris Pirillo, who has come up with two lists consisting of more than 100 Vista problems that Microsoft needs to fix before the product ships, we’ll stop there. With that introduction, what is Microsoft likely to do at TechEd around Windows Live, and will it be enough? The fact that Ray Ozzie, the grand architect of Microsoft’s Live strategy, is on tap to kick off the TechEd on Sunday night says to us that Microsoft is going to talk about more than just Windows Live programming interfaces during its annual developer/IT pro event. […]

Blognabbit - May 31, 2006 @ 5:31 pm

in which you switch to the special weapon and lay waste to roomful after roomful of enemy soldiers. Pirillo, in fact, enjoyed himself so much, he spent his Memorial Day weekend piling on with a list of 65 reasons why Outlook 2007 will suck and an additional 67 Vista mistakes.

steve miller - May 31, 2006 @ 7:20 pm

Chris,

I must protest your post.

EVERYTHING IS FINE IN VISTA SO STOP COMPLAINING IT WILL ALL WORK OUT FINE THERE’S NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT STOP OBSESSING WITH FIT AND FINISH IT’S ONLY BETA LOTS OF THINGS GET FIXED BETWEEN BETA AND RTM.

There. I’ve put in the company line.

;)

Tech Talk Blog - June 1, 2006 @ 3:18 am

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Testers Find Windows Vista Bugs and Annoyances - June 1, 2006 @ 2:12 pm

[…] Testers Find Windows Vista Bugs and AnnoyancesWith Windows Vista Beta 2 now available to beta testers, testers are posting the bugs and annoyances they discover in Windows Vista. The blog posts and official feedback on Windows Vista helps Microsoft identify and solve the remaining problems with Windows Vista, as they work to ship Windows Vista for business this November and for consumers in Janurary of 2007. Chris Pirillo posts 65 more Windows Vist mistakes […]

schwuk.com - June 1, 2006 @ 6:06 pm

Additional Information Chris Pirillo has compiled a couple of lists of what he considers problems with the current Beta: Windows Vista Feedback 65 More Windows Vista Mistakes 1 I’ve not yet had this many confirmations though.

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VISTA Web The Origin of VISTA. How Can I Become an AmeriCorps*VISTA Volunteer? How Can My Agency get AmeriCorps*VISTA Volunteers? Frequently Asked Questions about AmeriCorps*VISTA 65 More Windows Vista Mistakes ~ Chris Pirillo I just couldn’t leave well enough alone. Even after my problems with Outlook 2007, and my original feedback on Windows Vista, I went deeper into Windows Vista’s second beta. VISTA - Volunteers In Service To America

:: macnyt :: danmark :: - June 6, 2006 @ 4:16 am

[…] Og for at gøre ondt værre er det ogsÃ¥ “skægt” at læse om alle den inkonsistens der er i nyeste Beta. Mange ting fundnde af den berømmede Chris Pirilloklik klik […]

Offpoint - June 7, 2006 @ 7:33 am

mountains out of molehills! Sad to say, that’s probably what’s going to happen eventually. How I hope I can get a open list of User Interface (UI) feedback on the admin tool, the way that Chris did for Vista and Óutlook. I actually forwarded the first Vista list to my immediate team, as well as Scoble’s comments about Chris’s feedback, especially the paragraph where he said “public discussion increases the chances that the issues will be fixed….). Some

Download Windows Vista (GnomeREPORT) - June 8, 2006 @ 1:40 am

[…] Since you and I are friends, I’m going to give you a top secret Web site where you can download your own copy of Microsoft Windows Vista (beta 2). Whatever you do, don’t share this link with anybody else - we wouldn’t want the whole world testing the next version of Windows, would we? So, if you think you’re ready for the power that is Windows Vista (or if you want to ignore my Vista feedback and Mistake acknowledgements), head over to this super secret URL and download Vista. Of course, you’re installing it at your own risk - and you should probably send Microsoft plenty of feedback so that they can be sure to fix the bugs that you uncover. Don’t ask me how I pulled this off for you, though - because it took a lot of convincing to do. Okay, so I’m half-kidding and half-serious. Anybody can download and install Windows Vista Beta 2 today:We invite you to be among the first to experience the clarity that Windows Vista can bring to your world. The Windows Vista Customer Preview Program makes a pre-release edition of Windows Vista Ultimate broadly available to the public for the first time. This is beta code and should not be used in a production environment or on a main machine in the home. Beta 2 is intended for developers, IT professionals and technology experts to continue or begin their testing of Windows Vista. Before you decide to use Beta 2, you should feel comfortable with installing operating systems, updating drivers, and general PC troubleshooting. […]

Project D.U - Presented by AT&T: Channel - June 8, 2006 @ 1:46 am

[…] With Windows Vista Beta 2 announced last week, we’re theoretically in the home stretch for the first major version of Windows in what will be seven years. Even with all that time to make a better product, Chris Pirillo managed to find over 100 things wrong with the user experience. Longtime Windows expert Ed Bott thinks Chris may be going overboard with his complaints. Although Mini-Microsoft (said to be an employee of MS) seems to think the complaints have merit. Time will tell whether the half-baked nature of Vista drive more new computer purchases Apple’s direction when the final product ships. […]

Kaspersky Labs Forum -> Vista/KAV6 question - June 9, 2006 @ 5:49 am

[…] QUOTE(denzilla @ 8.06.2006 23:10)I just installed Avast! on the Vista partition. Vista is nice BTW. It has some very annoying usability issues, but I really like the eye candy Not sure about the asking price….Everything that I have seen and heard about Vista says that I am not going to like it.Visual Tour: 20 Things You Won't Like About Windows Vista by Scot FinnieWindows Vista Mistakes by Chris Pirillo65 (67) More Windows Vista Mistakes by Chris PirilloAll of this is probably moot, of course, as it relates to me. By the time MS gets through dealing with all of the lawsuits, and actually releases Vista, I will be dead anyway.Symantec Sues Microsoft to Stop VistaRon […]

Bartys Blog » Will Microsoft’s Windows Live Relaunch Fizzle? - June 9, 2006 @ 3:55 pm

[…] At the risk of sounding like Vista tester Chris Pirillo, who has come up with two lists consisting of more than 100 Vista problems that Microsoft needs to fix before the product ships, we’ll stop there. […]

Eric - June 12, 2006 @ 8:30 am

Chris’s post is a fine example of what I’ve been telling friends recently about a major difference in the way that Microsoft and Apple releases their major software. If this was Apple, we wouldn’t see alot of this until it is released. Most of this stuff would be worked out in house and with their developer network before we see it. Microsoft has been overly generous and lets us see more of the progression through their betas. Apple can be a little more flexible. I mean, come on…they’ve changed their CPU a couple of times in the past and expect new versions of 3rd party software to follow with a recompile/redesign…and most do follow.
I’m confident that it’ll work out in the end.

Robin - June 12, 2006 @ 10:52 pm

Windows Mobility Center actually does have an 8th “setting” which lets you change the orientation (portrait to landscape) for tablets. If you want the full functionality available on your laptop, you should have forked a little more $ out for a tablet. :)

Windows Vista (oli Longhorn) - Page 12 - VesaBBS - The Final Frontier - June 13, 2006 @ 2:05 am

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