Wednesday, January 19, 2005
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Today, I have decided that I MUST complain about Microsoft's "Notepad" software included with Windows. For those of you who don't know, Notepad is a text-editor. No formatting features, no picture insertion, nothing. That is not the problem. There are a few more bigger issues that need worked out.
1. In the Win98 and Win95 versions of Notepad, one MUST use the mouse to save. The oh-so-standard "Ctrl+S" feature is NOT available.
2. It renames files. When I attempt to make a file for my website, I'll tell it to call the file something like "index.html" or "page2b.php". Unfortunately, Notepad decides that I MEANT to call it "index.html.txt" or "page2b.php.txt". While this feature could come in handy for new users of Windows who forget to put file extensions on their filenames, advanced users HATE this.
I needed to include something in a box like this...
FINAL VERDICT: Microsoft loses with a score of 0 to 1,000,000. Rather than trying again, just include a link to Download.com for me to download a better product than "Notepad".
1. In the Win98 and Win95 versions of Notepad, one MUST use the mouse to save. The oh-so-standard "Ctrl+S" feature is NOT available.
2. It renames files. When I attempt to make a file for my website, I'll tell it to call the file something like "index.html" or "page2b.php". Unfortunately, Notepad decides that I MEANT to call it "index.html.txt" or "page2b.php.txt". While this feature could come in handy for new users of Windows who forget to put file extensions on their filenames, advanced users HATE this.
I needed to include something in a box like this...
FINAL VERDICT: Microsoft loses with a score of 0 to 1,000,000. Rather than trying again, just include a link to Download.com for me to download a better product than "Notepad".
