7 Things in Windows 7 That Suck |
By Marcus Caughcus, September 15th, 2009
Everyone is eagerly awaiting the second coming of Jesus, also known as Windows 7. However, there are a handful of things that Mary should be ashamed of.
We just installed Windows 7, which took significantly less time than XP ever did, and was pleasantly surprised to see most of our hardware ready to go. However, we still had to restart our machine after changing the network workgroup. How come the brainiacs at Microsoft can make a table that'll connect to a glass of booze, but still can't make an operating system that doesn't require a restart?
Although you can now postpone Windows' desperate plea to restart your computer after an update for up to 4 hours, there still isn't an option for it to just sit down, shut the fuck up, and wait until you decide to restart. Windows Update is more aggravating than Layne Staley going without a line of coke for an hour. What's worse is if you're in Windows Media Center and enjoying Naylin' Palin, you better rub one out quickly because Windows will force a restart in 15 minutes whether you like it or not.
Microsoft's touts that "ClearType" is the implementation of subpixel rendering technology, aiming to improve the appearance of text on blah-de-fucking-blah. What it is is thicker, anti-aliased text that still looks like shit. While Microsoft claims ClearType makes text look photorealistic on screen, it really looks like what you'd expect from an old HP LaserJet about to shit the bed. When we turned ClearType off, only half of the text was affected. This is horseshit. Off means off. All of it. Off.
Certain windows have the new Vista/7 look and other aspects still look like XP. We understand that a lot of XP and even previous iterations of Windows have been carried over from the illustrious history of the operating system to make this the fucking ultimate Windows ever in the universe, but finish your God damn work. This looks sloppy.
Why is it such a horrendous pain in the ass to switch between playback and recording inputs? Still? Vista screwed this up big time and Windows 7 continues the tradition. In XP, it was a simple matter of selecting the device you wanted by muting all the other ones. Now we have to hide this, disable that, set this as default, and click Configure or Properties for that. Furthermore, software that relies on inputs, such as Adobe Audition, go completely apeshit when you try to switch inputs while they're running because Windows takes forever and a day to implement the change.
Although Windows now allows you to preview fonts simply by looking at their icons, it still manages them very poorly. You can't simply drop a folder into the Fonts folder nor can you create subfolders within it for better organization or Windows will have a shitfit like Kayne West at the MTV Music Awards.
Windows Media now supports XviD and DivX out of the box and while that's just Jim fuckin' Dandy, my shitty $25 Wal-Mart DVD player I bought five years ago can, too. Some would argue that Windows Media natively supporting QuickTime is a step in the right direction, but we'd rather it support MKV files and audio codecs that matter. We still had to install AC3filter and a few other codec packs to get Windows Media to play all the shit we've collected over the years, none of which included anything encoded in QuickTime.
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I just let out a sigh of gasms...
Good use of the Kanye incident from last night.
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