Certainly far more application than we'd have ever gotten from Microsoft. As a guy who used to write a whole lot of serial communication code in a past life, I can tell you that HyperTerminal was* a pretty damn robust terminal applet. Rather than write their own terminal emulation app, Microsoft chose to license one from Hilgraeve and bundle it with Windows 95. The core OS should have priority.īut why does it have to be this kind of either-or dilemma? Why doesn't Microsoft simply license a better notepad and bundle it with Vista? They've gone this route before. If it's a choice between new versions of Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer and a bigger, better Notepad, that's not a choice at all. I understand that there are a finite number of developer hours available to work on Vista. But isn't the fit and finish of little applets like these- Notepad, Calculator, Character Map, Paint, Disk Cleanup, Compressed Folders, and dozens of others- indicative of the care and design that goes into the entire operating system? If Microsoft can't be bothered to bundle a version of Notepad that has basic amenities like a toolbar, what hope does the rest of the operating system have? The idea that we'll be viewing readme.txt files into 2010 with nothing but no-frills Notepad is unconscionable. I just read that Windows Vista will ship with a virtually unchanged version of Notepad, ten years later.
Notepad was minimalist by Windows 95 standards. The really unfortunate thing about Notepad is that- at the risk of stating the obvious- it sucks. Which means on any particular computer you happen to use, the odds of double-clicking a text file and getting Notepad are about. There might be a dozen better third-party alternatives, but that requires manual intervention and special customization.
The applets that ship in the box with the operating system are, like it or not, the defaults.
Even though it's crappy, we know it's on every Windows box we touch. I'll jump to the defense of trusty old calc.exe. In response to My Giant Calculator, Joost commented:
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