"Steven Schveighoffer" <schvei...@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:op.wevablddeav7ka@steves-laptop... > >I find this feature is *vastly* superior to the old "group all buttons >together into one taskbar button, then pop a list of the titles" mechanism. >
*shrug* I find the thumbnail popups vastly inferior. Actually, I find it useful literally 0% of the time, and both annoying and distracting 100% of the time. Not exaggerating. Just because some people like it doesn't mean it was a sensible move to force it on *everyone*. >You mean you don't just start typing the program name you want and have it >appear? I haven't browsed programs in a long time. > Of course not. Why bother with the typing when I can just skip straight to the "click on it" part? >Can't please everybody, and it's really difficult to design and support a >product that is configurable enough to try and please everybody. > All they have to do is just not remove the old way, leave it in as an option. It's not as hard as some make it out to be. Problem solved, everyone's pleased. And it's downright false to categorize this as a mere matter of "not pleasing everybody". They're "not pleasing" nearly *half* of their userbase. >I'd guess that a high majority of users for windows 7 like the new >interface better than XP. > ??? Of *course* most Win7 users like Win7 better, the ones who don't are XP users. Likewise, I can confidently say that a high majority of users for XP like the old interface better than Win7. So I don't see what that really means. But what I think *is* significant is that XP *continues* to be nearly half the Windows market. If MS did such an _objectively_ good job on Win7, then why did it create such a huge, lasting division among Windows users?