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

[Matt_H]

... Two state icons of arbritary size and folder icons. They help you distinguish important files from standard ones and tell you visually what is about to happen once you doubleclick on them.

... a button to bring windows to the back (ALT+ESC is a cludge).

... a menu bar on maximized windows that you can click by dring the mouse all the way up.

... a way to select multiple menu items, without closing the menu intermittently.

Intuition was superior!

... screens.

... active window doesn't have to be frontmost.

You'd think these would be mind-bogglingly obvious UI features on all platforms by now, but they're not.

[Matt_H]

its been years and Amiga does not have Visual Studio equivelent.

i love to drag and drop and have webbrowser facilities or calander controls.
Windows GUI is great it even has accessability options and voice/speak all apps, even automate every app via script as default. not every Amiga app can be controlled via script.
i can set internet connections in commandline !
even set/unset partitions, hidden or not via commandline.
i can even slipstream all windows patches into one Install CD/DVD, with my own apps !

There are alot of hidden capability under the hood believe me.
Amiga does not even have equivelent of windows gadgets or WB as html browser.
windows has capability running more than one desktop at same time !
Virtual desktops, the install image format is even VM ready.
every setup.exe has full script and automated control/unzip/install/creation capability.

Well, yes, those are features you get when you have thousands of paid developers working on a system. And the Amiga has a good many of them, similar workarounds, or could have a good many of them without modifying the core OS - just adding programs. Not bad for a platform with negligible investment in the last 15 years! And the other features we're discussing in this thread are areas where we're still ahead. Madness!

[Matt_H]

I think there are very few (perhaps none?) things where Amigas OS (or MOS) limits Amigas usability. It's the lack of SW that is the most usual problem, then the lack of MIPS.

Very nicely said!