{"id":234,"date":"2006-08-06T22:48:39","date_gmt":"2006-08-06T22:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/archives\/234"},"modified":"2013-08-26T18:10:14","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T23:10:14","slug":"4-things-that-microsoft-needs-to-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/4-things-that-microsoft-needs-to-fix\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Things that Microsoft Needs to Fix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At this point in its development cycle, Vista is wrapping up, pages are being stamped, and volumes are being closed. It&rsquo;s not done, but it&rsquo;s as close to <abbr title=\"Release Candidate\">RC1<\/abbr> as it can get, and Release Candidates are theoretically lock-down final bug-bashing opportunities, and not much gets changed at that point. So&nbsp;Build 5472 is for many a last opportunity to bug the irritations and annoyances that still remain in Windows Vista and we don&rsquo;t plan to miss out on the fun!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>No matter what people say about Vista, it does look great, but some things in a completely redesigned operating system scream &ldquo;Look at me! I&rsquo;m from the year 1991!&rdquo; and leave us wondering what it is that&rsquo;s actually happening at times. Here are some of the weirdest ranked in order of irritation.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Paint.<\/strong><br \/>Microsoft has shipped the same program with its OS ever since Windows 3.11 and the same kids that first learned to use a PC and draw on Paint back in the day are now teaching their own kids to do the same: besides the <a href=\"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/images\/reviews\/Vista\/Paint.png\" rel=\"follow\">top-aligned colors bar<\/a>, nothing has changed!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Windows Mail Communication Dialog.<\/strong><br \/>Windows Mail has been redesigned, coded from scratch, renamed, and rebranded &ndash; except for the Windows 95 icons on the <a href=\"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/images\/reviews\/Vista\/Old-Fashioned%20Outlook.png\" rel=\"follow\">communication screen<\/a> of course.. What&rsquo;s up with that!?<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Windows 2.0 Fonts Dialog.<\/strong><br \/>Vista looks great. It has 10 <a href=\"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/a-comprehensive-look-at-the-new-microsoft-fonts\/\" rel=\"follow\">awesome new fonts<\/a>, but what&rsquo;s this? It still has the original <a href=\"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/images\/reviews\/Vista\/Fonts%20Dialog.png\" rel=\"follow\">Windows Font Dialog<\/a> for new font installs? And the same crappy new font detection\/installation routines too that come crashing down if a font is already installed?<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Internet Explorer Import\/Export Dialog.<\/strong><br \/>Internet Explorer 6 fell behind the browser pack, and it was survival of the fittest from then on, until IE7 came along and made a world of a difference, except for the <a href=\"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/images\/reviews\/Vista\/Import-Export.png\" rel=\"follow\">import dialog from the 60s<\/a>, but they&rsquo;re doing something about it&hellip; we hope!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>None of these things are major problems that would stop a consumer from buying an operating system if that&rsquo;s all what&rsquo;s wrong.. But they sure don&rsquo;t look nice compared to all the shiny new controls and the otherwise-perfected icons and polished user interface, it just doesn&rsquo;t feel right. Like they always say &ldquo;If you&rsquo;re going to do something, do it right.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At this point in its development cycle, Vista is wrapping up, pages are being stamped, and volumes are being closed. It&rsquo;s not done, but it&rsquo;s as close to RC1 as it can get, and Release Candidates are theoretically lock-down final &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/4-things-that-microsoft-needs-to-fix\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[61,93,53,92],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-internet-explorer","tag-paint","tag-vista","tag-windows-mail"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xDa-3M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2012,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/2012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}