Tom Murphy makes me say nice things about Vista   August 30th, 2007

Tom Murphy spent most of lunchtime regaling me about how great Vista was despite my reservations. So in an effort to placate Tom (so he will continue to buy me lunch at the Microsoft Arium), here is one decent feature  I have found. The new behaviour of ALT-TAB that gives you a window scrolling through your apps is nice.

(Actually Darren our server guy here at PutPlace pointed it out to me).

So way to go Microsoft, 8 billion dollars well spent, keep it up, I wish I’d had it years ago,  I’m going to throw out my Mac…..

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4 Responses

August 30th, 2007 at 3:44 pm
Tom Murphy Says:

Mmmmm. Is that really the best you could do? (If you press the “Windows” key and tab, it’s even more impressive) Alt-Tab has actually been a feature in Windows around since Windows 3.1 (maybe earlier).

The more important question is are you able to print this post?

TM

August 31st, 2007 at 9:27 am
Paul Browne - Technology and People Says:

At the risk of turning this into a ‘Windows Shortcuts’ post WindowsKey+M clears the desktop. Alt+space then ‘M’ minimises the current window.

All have been in Windows for ages. Don’t know what Microsoft has been doing for the last 5 years if this is the best they can do :-)

Paul

September 7th, 2007 at 9:42 am
tom corcoran Says:

the alt-tab extension has been available for years as a m$ powertoy for xp

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx
http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/2/WXP/EN-US/TaskswitchPowertoySetup.exe

September 7th, 2007 at 10:04 am
Joe Says:

So it isn’t a new feature at all, yep Vista is a dog!

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