Having now had Windows 7 for a few weeks, I feel that I can say that overall, I like it,... however I still feel that we (users) are being roostered by Microsoft.
If Microsoft are going to release a new OS, I think that it is only reasonable that the users get a fully functional and secure product, so long as MS continue to release beta versions and continually rectify the errors that users find, I think that the program should be a give away. After all, MS are having their software tested by people who should be employed as beta testers.
This frustrating problem has been evident, to me anyway, since the first release of Windows 95 and I think reached its peak of dissatisfaction with Windows Vista, a program so flaky that the US Government forbade its use on any of it's computers. It seems that Microsoft barely get their latest OS working acceptably and they release a new version, and the story starts all over again. Not only do users then have to pay for a new version, but they have to go through the whole frustrating process again, finding all of the faults and omissions and hopefully having them rectified by Microsoft, at just about the time that they are due to release their new version,... Arrrgggghhh.
What led to this little tantrum was a newly discovered omission in Windows 7, not a great deal, but very frustrating to persons such as myself who print their own photos.
Now I know how you are all aware of my reluctance to spend my hard earned cash, Yes,... I'm a legend among the miserable. In the past I had worked out that the cheapest and best way to print 6" x 4" photos was to buy sheets of A4 sized paper at 15c each, and print three photos on each, giving a cost of 5c per photo for the paper. Using a CISS (Continuous Ink Supply System) on my printer as described in an earlier thread. the cost of ink is almost negligible, probably working out at less than 1c per photo.
In previous versions of windows, there has been a way to do this using the standard Photo Printing Wizard direct from "My Computer" or "Windows Explorer",.. but, for reasons known only outo themselves, and as it seems Microsoft is wont to do, they did not include the ability to do this in Windows 7, leaving only the ability to print two 6 x 4 photos on a sheet of A4 paper.
There are ways around it, but as near as I can find it involves having to load another photo editing program, which could be expensive and time wasting. I remembered that ACDSee Photo Manager had the ability to do this and so for me it was only a small inconvenience.
What I still can't come to grips with, is why they would leave out a very useful function that they already owned the code for
