>I've heard you say this before. MS probably spends more time and money on Ux than any other company. Their research showed ease of use improvements over older versions.
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I have to disagree. Search in Windows 7 was rendered unusable. We do alot of searching (file based business). Search is vastly slower since XP, and Windows 7 was the last straw. We've added AgentRansack for file searching, excellent tool.