Windows 7 - is it any better?

One could have hoped that 9 years after Windows 2000 came out, things would have improved for the better with Windows 7. Sadly I see little of that happening with Windows 7 other than what is always expected of a new release - higher stability.

But that isn't news 2009.. And doesn't differentiate Windows from other platforms, it's something everyone expects from a new release and Apple have so far IMO a better track record in this regard. Anyway, here are some things with Windows that Microsoft seemingly will never care about, and with that they instantly lose me as a customer.

1. File locking. Windows supposedly has reference counted file nodes implemented in the kernel (like you take for granted on ALL OTHER operating systems) but it's disabled. FAIL!

2. Mounts can STILL not be done on different TCP Ports, and to my knowledge you can't run separate SMB servers within the same machine. All other OSes can do this. FAIL!

3. The system console is retarded, it doesn't scale when i drag the window and it halts at a width setting that you have to manually edit within the preferences INSTEAD of scaling automatically as it should. FAIL!

4. No software repository.

5. Notepad can't do syntax highlighting.. That should be enabled default, stuff like this is far more important than including all the new GAMES.

6. Solitaire is now HARDWARE ACCELERATED and if you don't have hw-accel, you can still play it at 1 frame per second. And they say Windows 7 is going to run well on netbooks.. FAIL! Luckily I use my computer to do work...

Are you beginning to understand where the focus within Microsoft lies now? Hardware Accelerated Solitaire is really what I have been longing for all my life.

7. Windows Powershell funnily has implemented some UNIX commands, but I don't see why - apparently not to satisfy UNIX users - since they removed all the usual parameters.
If you run ls -la you FAIL, and if you run ps -aux YOU FAIL. Microsoft FAIL!

8. The Magnifier is probably the lamest thing I've ever seen. Ctrl+Alt mousewheel in Ubuntu wins BIG time. Web development is a breeze thanks to that. FAIL! They have a hardware accelerated GUI, why not make use of it? In case you wondered, in Ubuntu the entire screen zooms in around the mouse cursor instead of a puny little area at the top of the screen.

I can really still see why people are switching to Mac or Linux. Windows is simply not improving at all. The good points with Windows Vista and Windows 7 is the corporate installation tools, but you have that in Ubuntu as well so who cares?