How, exactly, is this an improvement? I'd really like to know. How is
removing the ability to do something in a way that we have become
accustomed to doing, without replacing it with a similar tool, an
improvement? IE7 provides that ability in the Managing Favorites
interface, but not in the Add Favorites interface? It doesn't provide a
flag for setting in the Internet Options - Advanced?

Maybe for users who only have a few Favorites folders it is OK. For
anyone else it's a burden.

More examples of Microsoft's dumbing down of the interfaces to apps.
Like spreading the icons on the toolbars around and then giving the
user limited cutomization options. They used to provide at least two
ways of doing things, and often many more. Now they are saying, 'YOU
WILL DO IT THIS WAY!" It's like the airlines telling us that, "For your
convenience, we will no longer provide overhead storage". Or a hotel
removing ice machines from each floor and replacing them with a sign
reading, "For your convenience, call down to the desk if you want ice."

WHOSE convenience does this serve?

I can't wait 'til they start removing keyboard shortcuts.

Hi Kai

Could you please explain why it is an improvement even if we consider that
the numbers of folders isn't high? You said elsewhere that you have explained
this, but I do not find your post dealing with this issue.

I think that it is not an improvement for two reasons:

1) An average user has many favorites. Many also find it as a good idea to
organize favorites, especially if one has a lot of them, in folders and
subfolders. So, an average user would have a high number of folders in the
FAVORITES. As you also concede, it is not an improvement if the number of
folders is high.

2) If you remove some option and force people to do have it only in one way
then generally it is not an improvement. In IE 7 it is removed the option to
collapse folders when one wants to add favorites in desired folders.

Alex