Windows file system annoyances

While Windows has come a long way since when file names were restricted to 8 characters, it still has many limitations compared to operating systems like Ubuntu.  For example, the following file can't be opened by Microsoft Excel until the file name is shortened significantly.  The total length of the file path is 234 characters.

Secondly, while generally spaces in a filename are handled by Windows properly, as a developer, if I encounter a strange issue opening a file or writing to a file, I will first eliminate any spaces from filenames I am providing to my application code.