Scott Nixon

Anyone who has ever moved a large number of files knows that the such a simple operation isn’t also, well, simple. The algorithm that is used to estimate file transfer duration must have been created by one of Microsoft’s summer interns. The time remaining just has never made much sense.

Enter Windows 7 file transfers. Time estimates seems to be a little better but the biggest improvement is the addition of the progress bar on the Taskbar. Woot!

So to critique Microsoft, why haven’t they built in more functionality for file transfers? Windows is installed and used by a billion people, so I get that not everyone will need to pause, resume, add and remove files to an active transfer. At the very least, the functionality should be available for a standard clean Windows Server install.  It should be in the operating system, on the client, make it so you would need to enable in the Control Panel.

So for now we will have to use TeraCopy at home and buy it at work. It really does “whip the llamas a$$!”