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I did not have to spend more than 30 seconds at MS Windows screen for several years. Now I’ve spent several hours.

1. In IE, you can’t stop flicking animated images.

2. In IE, you can’t force all fonts to be at least 12 point size. IE thinks you can not be trusted to select the font with which you browse.

3. In IE, you can’t say that you want resize and navigation controls in *all* new windows. Designers of kewl web sites write “toolbar=no” in their kewl java script. I did not even know about such stupidity before.

4. Here and there you get “modal windows”, from which you can not switch to any other window. If you need to look in another window for the input - no way.

5. Here and there you get windows, which you can’t resize. Selection list of >200 items is crammed in 1 inch vertical space. Was it difficult to allow resizing?

None of these issues apply to the operating system itself, it is all about applications (as anything a user can see on the screen). But the operating system somehow influences the culture of these applications.

There was one thing which I found better though. Default fonts are nicer than what I’m used to in Gnome and KDE.