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I notice that file extensions are visible in some of the screenshots. Does that mean they're getting rid of that dumb (IMO) policy of hiding the extensions from users by default? The result was lots of naive users clicking on nekkid-pitcher-of-hot-celeb.jpg.exe because they couldn't see the .exe part, in exchange for...what, exactly?

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And they punished those of us who make them visible again, by having the "edit filename" function mix the extension with the filename, even though wanting to change the extension is about 100 times more rare than wanting to change the characters right before the extension.

I've seen a nice version of this in linux somewhere - when you push F2 two boxes come up and the cursor is positioned in the one to the left of the dot but you can move across to it easily.

EDIT: Ah, this is available in windows 7 too. Nice, finally.

In Windows 7 (maybe Vista too), the "edit filename" function lets you edit the extension, but has only the filename selected. Thus Edit -> start typing -> Enter changes the filename, leaving the extension intact.

For what it's worth, OS X does this http://cl.ly/9ZeF

Windows 7 does what you described in your second paragraph.

if they never ever showed the users the extension users would look at the icon rather than the extension and we wouldn't have this problem

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