It feels good to bash Vista. I find myself screaming at it on a near daily basis. But when I use another OS, I find that there are some small things that I miss. I thought it would be interesting to think of as many good things about it as I could. So far I’ve got:<\/p>\n
1. toolbar previews on hover<\/strong><\/p>\n I don’t know if this has a name, but if you have multiple windows open and you hover the mouse over the toolbar, you get a little pop-up preview of that app or web page. At first I thought this was feature bloat but I’ve come to find it useful for checking how something is running while I’m, for example, watching a video.<\/p>\n 2. alt tab to desktop<\/strong><\/p>\n In addition to cycling through windows, you can get to the desktop, minimising all windows. This seems intuitively right, but it’s really a completely different function when you consider it.<\/p>\n 3. massive icons<\/strong><\/p>\n You can get some really big icons in your folders. Good for picture and video previews. I might be alone on this or just getting old, but I love giant icons.<\/p>\n 4. partitioning took about 20 seconds<\/strong><\/p>\n There are a lot of things that require fewer screens, fewer choices and less technical know-how. For example I recently had to partition my hard drive and I settled down for what I imagined would be a fairly long headache. About half a minute and I was done. What? This is a Microsoft product right?<\/p>\n 5. er…<\/strong><\/p>\n Ok I’m done. Anyone else?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It feels good to bash Vista. I find myself screaming at it on a near daily basis. But when I use another OS, I find that there are some small things that I miss. I thought it would be interesting to think of as many good things about it as I could. So far I’ve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[73],"tags":[76,75,74],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}