Here we go again... and again... and yet again!
Like most older folks, I've been using Windows in some form or another since its inception. Like most experienced users, with each successive iteration, I've always looked for worthwhile, functional improvements that allowed for an easier, better experience. Unfortunately and far too frequently, the Microsoft folks always appear to have their own agenda along those lines. How many of us have wished to have been present at one of those round-table discussions when the decisions were being made as to what was going to be put in and what was going to be left out? I'd like to literally grab the ultimate 'decision-maker' by the shoulders and ask him/her, "what the hell are you thinking?" Why, oh why do they keep making the same old stupid blunders with each new Windows launch? You can't keep removing functions that millions upon millions of folks have gotten used to and rely on. One such example is their bone-headed tampering with Folder Views in Windows 7; basically rendering it useless. As well as the removal of the delete "X" on the Windows Explorer Toolbar (to mention a few). Now, the Start Menu... The sad part? Those ultimate "decision-makers" over at Redmond never appear to listen to their legions of unhappy and greatly annoyed customers. Each year they paternalistically and with bull-headed abandon, rush forward without nary a thought about the millions of users they continue to tick off year after year...
