Archive for June, 2008

Things that should have been better in Vista

By admin - Last updated: Monday, June 30, 2008

I’ve been working with Vista x64 for about a month now and while my experience has been surprisingly positive, there are a few very simple things that could have and should have been much better.

Since Windows ‘95, Microsoft has earned a lot of bad publicity by making it way too easy for grandma to double [...]

Running history of new features in AutoCAD which failed to deliver

By admin - Last updated: Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Ever since AutoCAD went to the one year releases, I’ve been pretty critical of how rushed all of the new features have been. This is a running list of all of the new heavily touted “bullet list” features which failed to deliver.
 
2005:
New Feature: Hatch Gap Tolerances (HPGAPTOL)
Incomplete implementation: Works in simple figures where users wouldn’t [...]