It's 20 years on, and Windows still doesn't have...

[Trev]

@danwood

Drag and drop into the application itself?

The only Amiga-like thing I find myself doing inadvertently in Windows (and UNIX variants) is typing "list" in a console.

Screen drag is a feature I miss, but it's more akin to the Amiga/Mac view of the computer-as-an-appliance than the Windows view of the computer-as-a-computer.

[Trev]

@roj

Nothing in Windows prevents it. Window z-order is independent of window input focus.

@paul1981

For better or worse (better IMHO), Microsoft went the way of the registry with the introduction of OLE. Many .NET application use XML-based configuration files, though.

[Trev]

Microsoft is either destroying browser competition and then legally prevented from competing or it's not doing enough. Love 'em or hate 'em, Microsoft played a key role in making computing ubiquitous throughout the "developed" world.

[Trev]

@runequester

Nah, the revolution occurred in spite of IBM. The publishing of the PC BIOS was really an oops.

[Trev]

@danwood

You can drag onto Wordpad's toolbar, but I agree it's inconsistent. Wordpad behaves like a 90's OLE demonstration. (Wordpad in Windows 7 is quite nice, though.)

You can often drag objects into text boxes and get a text representation, but that's also up to the developer. Windows is flexible, and its predominantly open API leads to wide variation in features and little adherence to UI guidelines.

Re: common dialogs (Open, Save As, etc.), they're usually just Explorer views, and apart from the special file selection behavior, they behave just like any other Explorer view.

[Trev]

@Kesa

You could address the root cause of those accessibility features and cure the blind. Wait....

Somewhere in the back of mind there's a hint of a memory re: disabling tooltips globally, but it would only apply to applications that adhere to standards. Most do not.