![]() Too cluttered, too many steps to do the simple task of scanning a document or picture.įor home users who can't justify the purchase of their own license of Office (at least not when OpenOffice and Google Docs and Spreadsheets are very viable alternatives for occassional at-home use), Windows Calendar is a decent little scheduling app that supports meeting invitations. Windows Fax and Scan is actually less useful than the Scanner and Camera Wizard in XP, IMHO. That made my wife happy Her degree is in mass media and she had plenty of experience with the full version of Premiere in college. Windows Movie Maker has some nice improvements, but since it won't run on a non-WDDM video chipset(like the one in my wife's laptop), I bit the bullet and bought Adobe Premiere Elements. I sure like the Windows Features stuff.makes locking a system down a lot easier when I'm in YAGNI mode. The On-Screen Keyboard is for accessibility (and I'm sure it will come in useful one day when I have only a mouse and no keyboard and lots of typing to do) but it's not sizable/scaleable, the fonts are poorly anti-aliased, poorly centered, and apparently there wasn't enough room for the "i" in Sh ift." This is almost worth the price of admission. The Clock Applet that comes up when you single-click the time is completely new, with shiny clock art, and the ability to have multiple clocks in different time zones. They've finally updated Sound Recorder.bummer that the little chart is gone. ![]() Sticky Notes is meant for use with TabletPCs (or PCs with Wacom Tablets) and includes voice note recording. There's a number of updated Applets that are pretty slick, while others haven't changed. I was poking around Windows Vista today, seeing if there was anything I missed.here's a few bits of niceness that made me smile.
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