Microsoft's Most well made Application

most well written piece of Microsoft software is probably Powershell
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simply a godsend when you're doing console work on windows.

the Snipping Tool, Notepad and the calculator are close runners up, however.
 
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Aod said:
most well written piece of Microsoft software is probably Powershell
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simply a godsend when you're doing console work on windows.

the Snipping Tool, Notepad and the calculator are close runners up, however.
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Powershell must be up there in useful tools. That said, I'd probably ask the question what do MS make this isn't well made or useful? You'd have a shorter list.
 
notepad really needs updating..

you can't even do CTRL + backspace in it
also, triple clicking doesn't select the whole line

notepad2 is tons better
 
The snipping tool is one of my favourite little programs on W7, speeded up any work I've had to do this year at uni.

I still don't like calc though, need to be able to enter a string of calculations rather than doing one thing at a time. Just a simple example say if I want to work out the radius of a sphere from its volume I need to do four separate calculations (inc noting down numbers) rather than just entering all the values at once for one calculation.
 
Snipping tool + notepad!

Though I do like Notepad++ now a shade better.

I went from Kaspersky to MSE then back again. No reason cause MSE was very unobtrusive, old habits die hard though.

Anyone had a problem with mse? Or should I go back again, fell it may play nicer with my system....
 
jak731 said:
The snipping tool is one of my favourite little programs on W7, speeded up any work I've had to do this year at uni.

I still don't like calc though, need to be able to enter a string of calculations rather than doing one thing at a time. Just a simple example say if I want to work out the radius of a sphere from its volume I need to do four separate calculations (inc noting down numbers) rather than just entering all the values at once for one calculation.
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actually, in the windows 7 calculator you can now use brackets which allows you to do it all on one line:

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welshdragon said:
Anyone had a problem with mse? Or should I go back again, fell it may play nicer with my system....
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I've had no issue with MSE although I don't place too much faith in AV. Kaspersky is probably better because it's more aggressive, but on the flip side it's more annoying. I've also had quite a few performance issues across different versions and configurations with Kaspersky, but if it's working for you then I dont see any real reason to go with MSE.
 
jak731 said:
Awesome I didn't realise this before, cheers. (Should be a cube root btw:p)
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Oh yeah, oops. it's been a while since I did physics for academics... and we don't deal with spherical radiative antennae in communications engineering very much these days.

And you're welcome :)
 
Microsoft Office, I won't pick a specific version because they have been consistently good.
Microsoft Visual Studio.
 
QwaF said:
Microsoft Office, I won't pick a specific version because they have been consistently good.
Microsoft Visual Studio.
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My thoughts coming into this thread. If i had to say a version for office it'd be 97 (Excel Flight simulator :p)..

Visual Studio, I suppose they just keep getting better really..
 
Got to be Minesweeper. IMO, OpenOffice is at least as good as MS Office (and free) and Notepad is inferior to TextEdit, gedit, vi, nano and emacs. I don't use IE or WMP.

Minesweeper is the only MS built-in I use regularly, and I don't buy any MS products other than Windows and some of their games (and GFWL is terrible).
 
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