Our buddy Chris Pirillo writes about why he thinks Microsoft's next operating system just plain sucks.

“Arvind Mishra gave a high-level overview of some new features in the OS. First, he shows off a new way of launching Solitaire… yeah, it looked just as great as it did in Windows 3.1. Arvind continues with a joke about the dog in Windows Search no longer being there – and I couldn’t hear a single laugh coming from the audience. Why? Because it wasn’t funny when the pooch was foisted upon us in XP. Then, Arvind runs through the new Desktop search feature… which is nothing new to me, as I’ve been happy for months with something already far more elegant. In the “new” Explorer, the thumbnail options are just as ghastly as they have been in previous versions of Windows (what if I don’t want to have all my icons enlarged at the same time?). Oh, and I believe the thumbnail image representing folders (or their new paradigm, stacks) really needs to be redone. But I feel that’s just the tip of the iceberg. “

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  1. TechFreak at 10:16am 2nd May 2005 Ouch, this is a Microsoft MVP slamming Microsoft too. Maybe Microsoft just needs better presenters...
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