PowerShell, along with a number of console environments, have the ability to tab thru some options, usually files and directories. Unfortunately, this doesn’t support enough, if you ask me. Even if it did support more, it doesn’t compare to true IntelliSense. I know this isn’t quite a feature of the standard console app, but to have the Visual Studio style IntelliSense would definitely make it easier to learn and work with PowerShell.

This is one of my big complaints about PowerShell: load times can be slow. I’m not sure why it’s so slow, but it needs to be as fast to load as the regular command line. I posted a question about this internally, but I haven't been too impressed with the response times on getting answers from them. We'll have to see.

The network icon in the system tray for Windows Vista has definitely been improved, but there's still some room to grow. As is, when you hover over the icon, a small, graphical tooltip is displayed showing the active connections. When you click the icon, you get the same thing with two additional links: Connect or disconnect and Network and Sharing Center. I like this view, but I hate the fact that I have to click "Connect or disconnect...", select the desired network, click disconnect, wait for the actual disconnect, and finally close that window. I hate all that. I just want to click a disconnect icon from the tooltip.

I will say that there is a context menu on the icon. So, you can simply go to Disconnect from > [desired network]. Out of habit, I never use this. For some reason, I seem to like the graphical tooltip more. Either way, I think the functionality should be in both places.

With the coming of Server Core, there's been a lot of talk of the modularization of Windows. This has been long-coming, of course. The first time I remember hearing about this was around 2001. Those prophesies never seemed to come to, unfortunately -- at least, not in the time frame I was expecting. Well, as late to the game as it may be, it'll be welcome when it is here. What I'd like to see is for Microsoft to take that the extra mile and start making Microsoft Update be the source for installing and updating all Microsoft software. I thought about this after having to track down one after another piece of software online via MSDN or some random download page, which you never can tell if its the latest release or not. Managing it all thru Microsoft Update would be absolutely a dream come true.

Of course, this is only phase 1. Phase 2 of the "new" distro model would be to provide this as a service to othe customers. Allow others to integrate their update software into the Microsoft Update infrastructure. Of course, this would mean we'd need another re-branding of what was originally the Windows Update service. I can't think of any simple name for this, so you know it'll have to be one of those long names we all hate. Perhaps something like "Software Update for Windows" would be relatively simple. This could be a very lucrative offering, as I see it. I can think of a dozen permutations, but the result is all the same.