A couple of weeks ago, I posted a review of Windows 7 on my old blog. One of my coworkers informed me that I was too nice to Microsoft’s latest operating system, so I’ve decided to make up for it in this post, where I’ll obsess about every little thing wrong with Windows 7.

It’s still Windows:

No matter how fancy a shell they put on top of it, it’s still the same Windows we’ve loved for years. In particular this release, which is basically a polished version of Vista. There isn’t much in Windows 7 (if anything) that couldn’t have been released as a Service Pack to Vista, but by turning it into a separate release, Microsoft accomplishes two things: they get to rid themselves of the stigma associated with Vista as soon as possible, and they get to charge for it.

It plays nice… with other Windows 7 computers:

Windows 7 introduces Homegroup for sharing files between computers, and while it works fine if all your computers are running Windows 7, I’ve had some issues getting other machines to talk to it, in particular anonymous SMB read access.

It’s so security-minded, it won’t let you connect to WEP:

No matter how many times I remind my parents that they need to switch their wireless network over to WPA, they somehow forget to do so, so when I visit, I have to use their WEP network. Windows 7 basically throws a fit when you connect to a WEP secured network. While a reminder that WEP isn’t particularly secure would be nice, refusing to connect is quite annoying. In order to connect to a WEP network, you have to manually open up the network settings and add the network yourself, rather than use the new network tool.

There’s still six different versions:

While they’ve almost gone back to the tried and true Home and Pro options, there are just as many versions of Windows 7 as there were of Vista, they’re just focusing the most on Home Premium and Professional. Then, there’s the laughably featureless Starter Edition which, due to the already razor thin margins on netbooks, are quite likely to become the standard installation on the tiny devices.

Even Ultimate is missing a lot of functionality:

This has been an issue basically forever, but Windows 7 doesn’t include any kind of office suite. While they’ve tried to beef up Wordpad in order to provide a decent word processor, most people are still going to have to buy Microsoft Office whether its for work, school, or just personal use.

There’s also still no sftp client installed by default, just the console ftp client.

You still need an antivirus:

And Windows 7 will gladly remind you. Over and over again.  Windows 7′s UAC has been relaxed since Vista, which could potentially allow untrusted software to be installed.

It’s still using NTFS:

We were supposed to get a new filesystem three years ago when Vista shipped, but the elusive WinFS is still missing from this release as well.

So, what did I miss? Surely we can do some more hating on Microsoft’s newest OS.