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Whenever anyone lists the new copy dialog as one of the top features of Windows 8, it really makes Windows 8 sound bad.

I mean, seriously? The copy dialog? The thing whose job it is to say "OK, you've got plenty of time, go take a shower" and "OK, we're almost there!"

I'm sorry, this is not a key piece of infrastructure. If that's one of the most exciting things you can point to on Windows 8, that says to me there's not much exciting to point to.

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Come on, nobody is suggesting the copy dialog is the pinnacle of Windows 8, but it's important because it solves a very common and very visible frustration with previous versions of Windows.

Does it? What frustration is that? Copying files takes time, everybody gets that, what's the frustration? The animation isn't cute enough?

Users regularly express frustration with the inaccurate way Windows calculates time estimates on file transfers and the fact that you can't add or remove files in the queue without using a third party application like Teracopy.

I would imagine I'm about as much of a "power user" as anyone else on here and I couldn't care less about either of the things you just mentioned. Making a big deal out of the file copy dialog on a new OS does seem a bit over the top.

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