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- imasuperDOTcom, on 10/15/2008, -2/+185I'll tell you what I'd like to see. After almost 20 years of "start menu" class windows releases, I'd like to see an taskbar where I can actually re-arrange my running programs.
- trollick, on 10/16/2008, -7/+104"the registry deteriorates over time and needs repairing and compressing every so often"
NO. That's a myth spread by people who sell useless registry optimizers. - esc27, on 10/16/2008, -5/+96Rebootless updates. Nothing is more annoying than having to reboot servers in the middle of the night in hopes no one is using them...
Our Linux boxes can run for months if not years and only really need reboots to upgrade to new kernels. Windows, every single month. - BlackJackJester, on 10/16/2008, -29/+99This is just anti-Windows dribble written by a guy who knows nothing of OS programming or even the organizational structure of Microsoft.
- unabsolute, on 10/16/2008, -4/+69Disk image auto mounting. 'Nuff said.
- Tobey, on 10/16/2008, -0/+58I just realized this was written by Dvorak. That explains why it sounds like the rantings of a cranky old man...
- inactive, on 10/16/2008, -14/+55I agree on getting rid of the registry. It'd be so nice to be able to copy all your installed applications from one computer to another and have them all run perfectly. I wish applications/games didn't rely on use of the registry. This would be the greatest thing to me.
I'd also like to see some kind of 3D desktop feature -- Compiz for Linux is a great example (love the Cube Desktop).
FTA: "There is nothing more annoying than Microsoft and this cloud computing crapola. It has its place in certain situations, but too often I've been doing something on my laptop on an airplane and suddenly the machine wants to contact the Internet for some reason or other. It's ridiculous. " -- Never had that problem for me. But then again I don't fly in airplanes too often. - RMoore08, on 10/16/2008, -2/+42Yea, but we shouldn't have to download tons of third party programs to do what the OS should do in the first place.
- noPCtoday, on 10/16/2008, -9/+48lame list, the author has no idea what he is talking about. WinFS is not a file system. it's an organizing system, WinFS needs to run on NTFS. and you know what, even though the project is abandoned, all the technology they deveoloped is being used by Live Desktop Search and Windows Indexing.
Registry is another thing, its a light weight database just like a mini sql or xml database, it has important meta data of softwares, if registry is replaced, 99% of the softwares on the market will not be compatible. people will whine more. - sirber, on 10/16/2008, -2/+40Why? You can run 32bit apps on a 64bit OS...
- unabsolute, on 10/16/2008, -1/+38taskbar shuffle is a program I use that allows me to reorganize taskbar items as well as systray items.
http://nerdcave.webs.com/taskbarshuffle.htm - majortom1981, on 10/16/2008, -10/+43Too bad half the things he suggested microsoft got sued and criticized for being a monopoly for.
Media player cant be made better, neither can the mail app(both due to mnonpoly reasons), microsoft tried database file system called winfs and people hated it. - serif69, on 10/16/2008, -2/+32Dear Mr. Dvorak,
Sorry your keyboard layout never really caught on. Now please stop telling me to get off your lawn. - Dustin00, on 10/16/2008, -1/+28When I insert a CD or DVD, I do not want my quad-proc to lock up for 10 seconds.
It's been over a decade since Windows 95, for cryin' out loud. - Picer, on 10/16/2008, -0/+25those registry optimizers are kind of useful they get rid of orphaned registry entries but i understand you point, their not worth paying for though.
- sickb13, on 10/16/2008, -6/+31One wish:
Please bitch slap Apple. - DotNetWill, on 10/16/2008, -8/+33Do you acutally know what the Windows Registry does?
- Chicken, on 10/15/2008, -2/+24That is up to the software developers.
- mdman, on 10/16/2008, -9/+29People who complain about products not even out yet are stupid....
this guy was not going to purchase it anyway... ***** whiners.... - inactive, on 10/16/2008, -2/+20I want just a more user friendly interface. Different work place screens like Linux would be nice too.
- DotNetWill, on 10/16/2008, -3/+21Yeah i mean it's rubbish how Windows will still run Win 9x programs and it's just so annoying that all those old 16bit apps don't work. So glad Apple won't let you OS9 apps on OSX.
Oh wait, wait a sec.... - fatlip, on 10/16/2008, -0/+17what he said
- falstaff, on 10/16/2008, -0/+1613 is not "almost 20."
And BobZombie: There are a million things that people think Windows should be able to do "out of the box," but if MS included a small fraction of those, they'd just get sued again for putting the 3rd parties out of business. - thedragon4453, on 10/16/2008, -2/+18This article seems a bit amateurish.
1. I'm not sure what he is saying about searching the file system. Vista has pretty much this same functionality now. Click start, type what you want, be dazzled. If he is going to complain about the file system, then how about how NTFS fragments so bad?
2. I actually agree with the comment about coding for better performance. I don't think that it is reasonable to expect everyone to upgrade to run the OS. Vista is a hog.
3. - naganooch, on 10/16/2008, -1/+17i was just about to reply and say essentially the same thing you just did. i just noticed on wikipedia:
"The Windows registry was introduced to tidy up the profusion of per-program INI files that had previously been used to store configuration settings for Windows programs.[1] These files tended to be scattered all over the system, which made them difficult to track."
this sounds entirely counterproductive to me. i agree those settings files for your games and other software should stay in the directory with said software, and not in your OS's personal information place. that just seems like abuse of the registry by developers - AndrewDB, on 10/16/2008, -7/+22I would love to see dual boot modes.
When your computer boots up running Windows 7 you have two options:
X64 bit mode.
OR
X32 bit mode.
Straight out of the box. - jakem1, on 10/16/2008, -0/+14This in a double-edged sword though. If MS added every feature you can think of people would complain about all the bloat. Be happy that they have created a platform that can he built on by other developers.
- ascheinberg, on 10/16/2008, -3/+16Can you describe exactly what your particular limitations of NTFS are? NTFS is a mature and stable journaled FS that is mostly POSIX compliant.
Is it just being able to search with literal strings? Because that doesn't work on OS X or Linux either. - niteskunk, on 10/16/2008, -1/+14IMMA CHARGIN MAH LAZER
- kinerry, on 10/16/2008, -3/+16Barebones for gaming, you get only what you need and nothing to steal processing power or memory
- computershack, on 10/16/2008, -10/+22Buried for *****. Vistas search already does work the way the author wants it to. Windows Media player can play anything you've installed a CODEC for. How is Windows Mail crap? You can receive and send emails. WTF does he want us to use, that ***** CLI ***** that the Loonix morons are always banging on about? What's wrong with the registry? It's certainly easier than hunting all over the goddamned place for config files just to find they're in a completely different place than they should be because the distro authors decided on a whim to change it..
- garryw, on 10/16/2008, -1/+13Aaarrrrr!! Mount the image or walk the plank!
- designerutah, on 10/16/2008, -6/+18They got sued for "integrating the application into the operating system." Not for making it better. For example, it's difficult, if not impossible, to remove the Microsoft Media Player without breaking browser media support. This isn't "better." It's too tightly integrated, which means other vendors who make similar products can't compete because some of the underlying code is locked to Microsoft only apps.
What this guy is asking for has nothing to do with monopoly issues. Other companies have produced competing products that are better, he's just asking that MS do the same. And if they want to ensure they avoid monopoly issues, be sure they apps are stand-alone (meaning you can add or remove them entirely without messing anything else up). Apple isn't great in this area either, look at how parts of Quicktime are necessary for iTunes and browser media support. The key difference is only "parts" of Quicktime are necessary. You can install just those parts and iTunes/browsers will work with media just fine. - inactive, on 10/16/2008, -0/+11In soviet russia щиьлдтсбь итшуращуп you!
- Colindean, on 10/16/2008, -1/+12Dropping outright backward compatibility would do wonders for Windows. Emulate! Microsoft could put its awesome socks on and essentially include, by default, Virtual PC with XP running within it. It wouldn't operate how we see it now, but it would work more like Wine than VPC/VMware/Parallels/VirtualBox/QEMU.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Apple keep Mac OS 9 in X by essentially running OS 9 /within/ X through some kind of emulation (Rosetta, I think?)? - Picer, on 10/16/2008, -0/+11I want windows 7 to be "sport" version of Vista (car reference) it should be fast and not bloated and come with tools to fix windows problems (registry cleaners, adjusting start tray entries (without typing in CMD) and i want microsoft to force developers to use DEP (Data Execution Prevention) If microsoft forced developers to implement DEP then windows would be less susceptible to zero day exploits and buffer overflows, their are many security features which are optional but should be forcefully implemented.
Media player really should play any media.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_and_safety_f ... - SkippyDoorknob, on 10/16/2008, -1/+12I'm waiting for Windows Mojave. I hear great things about it!
- matthewf01, on 10/16/2008, -0/+10Ah, true.
***** you, Cisco VPN Client! - jakem1, on 10/16/2008, -0/+10Thank you. I'm glad somebody said it. Also, the article wrongly suggests that a natural language search is dependant upon a db based file system.
- spiffyfitz, on 10/16/2008, -3/+13How about a consistent control panel? The Vista control panel is abhorrent... even in "Classic View," each panel is a bloated train wreck.
- inactive, on 10/16/2008, -5/+15To me, the fact that MS is labeled as a monopoly is ridiculous. The got hammered for including IE, yet Mac includes Safari. I say let the OS's add whatever they want. Let the consumer decide not the courts.
- BuddingMonkey, on 10/16/2008, -2/+11"It be nice" for you to learn to type before you give computer advice.
- thedragon4453, on 10/16/2008, -2/+11I've rebooted my windows machine more times in the last week than I have my Mac in the last 3 months. And my Ubuntu machine went even longer than that.
- gettophilosophr, on 10/16/2008, -1/+10I'm trying to figure out how I can expect Extremetech's review of Windows 7 to be objective when it comes out, considering they're already talking about how much it's going to suck and how much they're going to be disappointed.
Look, I'm not a fanboy. I recommend PCs and Macs to different people depending on their needs. But I do have to say this...everyone always assumes that Steve Jobs will ***** a gold brick at his next keynote, introducing something spectacular. Everyone always assumes that Microsoft's next project will be *****. The Mojave Experiment did a good job of showing what that kind of bias does. - bratterscain, on 10/16/2008, -0/+9RMoore08, and for every one of you, there's someone saying I don't need a whole bunch of MS built-in apps, just a basic fast and simple OS with only things that are necessary and for them to download what they need.
- ExRe, on 10/16/2008, -0/+9http://taskix.robustit.com/
Taskbar shuffle doesn't work on 64bit. :( - david76, on 10/16/2008, -0/+9FTA: It would be so nice to find a document on the computer by typing "Find document dog not cat near feeding near rover" or some such series of commands.
Yes, wouldn't it be great if we could find files using a simple command structure like SQL. Yes, because that's such an approachable way to find files. Brilliant. - briLo, on 10/16/2008, -0/+9whyreboot.exe
http://exodusdev.com/products/WhyReboot/
Not a solution but a useful tool to see if a reboot is actually required. -
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