It is by far the worst mainstream browser currently available and in development.

Try IE9, then comment again.

You were never forced into it, nor was anyone else. Just don't use it, and feel free to install anything else you want. Also, the Live stuff isn't bundled.

There is nothing in the Windows default apps that I would call "crappy". Maybe 'underwhelming' is the best word.

Might it be Foxytunes?

I would have voted for Scanner, if I hadn't caught a bad case of voter indifference. anyway, I like it, and it's not just amusing to look at, it's actually useful. Works fine in 7 and XP.

Ok I believe you. It's just that some people are lethal. They get a hold of a deviled egg, or some brocoli, or a bowl of chilly.... and things get..... well, you know.

Personally I don't know why people talk about submitting , using all these roundabout euphamisms and couchings in articles about zip ties. (shrugs)....... no wait..... I can't shrug!..... I'm still tied up!!! :) :)

It may be good for the digestion, but I didn't see anything mentioned about ... certain kinds of collateral damage after or during dinner. Anybody know what I mean? Is there anything from Army Surplus that one could use to fend off that effect? gas mask? ...something like that?

I made an error. Where I had "DiskCopy", I meant "xcopy".

Here is what I think Whitson Gordon could have done, to make this a truly good article about making the most of the cmd window on its own, i.e. no external tools, no put-downs from the nix direction. It wouldn't have stopped the haters and the perpetual complainers who jumped into this thread, but it would have…

I think you replied well, but I also think it was wasted on a troll. This thread is lousy with them. :)

Well I just assumed that the other commenter was assuming that you assumed something, regarding some other person's assumption. I'm assuming that's what we're talking about. But I could be wrong. :)

There was an extra step to go through on Win7, for me at least. I'll repost what I sent to #ips:

Now you know what it's like to find LH to be sketchy on Windows content, especially lately.

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For the people complaining about not being able to paste into the prompt, install ahk, and use this.

Here.

For the people complaining about not being able to paste into the prompt, install ahk, and use this.

Thanks a lot, Whitson. You took what could have been a helpful and constructive article on using and augmenting the cmd prompt, and set it up as an invite for linux trolls.