2012-08-10 For about one month after the submission of my master's thesis I have hardly had personal need to use computers. Thus, I hardly used computers because of own want. Yet, I did do some computer work for money. I worked some hours with Windows 7. Could be that I have already mentioned that the network configuration interface in Windows 7 is a big fail. If I haven't, I do it herewith. If I already have, then it is worth to tell it again: The network configura- tion interface in Windows 7 is horrible. Why don't they put similar stuff in similar style at the same place? I had few con- tact with Windows in the last years and I hardly care about it. My opinion about it is not predefined. For instance, I think they did the maximize and maximize-half feature well and I don't care who invented it. I think it's fine to use, that's enough. But I don't get why the network configuration sucks so much. It looks as if no one ever analyzed its structure logically. Or is everything just the result of information and control hiding? Nevertheless, why should the various interfaces be of different style then and the links between them heavily confusing? Anyway, let's switch to something different. There's the concept of the ``mile high menu bar''. Microsoft has fixed their window close buttons regarding this concept somewhen. That means, if you have a maximized window, you can close it if you push the mouse pointer far upper-right and click. Although the close button does not cover the most upper-right pixel of the screen because it is surrounded by a small margin, it will be clicked. This is a high improvement in productivity. The same applies to the Start button. In Windows 7, however, the ``minimized all win- dows'' aka. ``show desktop'' button, located at the lower-right corner of the screen can not be clicked in the same way. It's ob- vious that the problem was not solved conceptionally but by spe- cial case hacks for the close and Start buttons. This would not be too surprising, but if you click the most lower-right pixel of the screen, i.e. the frame around the ``minimize all windows'' button, your mouse pointer is warped a few pixels up left to the lower-right corner of the ``minimize all windows'' button. Now, a second click will hit the button. That's so ridiculous! http://marmaro.de/lue/ markus schnalke