Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

20 Features Windows 7 Should Include

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the downhill-since-dos dept.

Damian Francis writes "Australian computer expert Vito Cassisi has come up with a list of 20 features that Windows 7 should have. The article includes features like modularized OS, new UAC, program caching, standards compliant browser and a whole lot more with explanations as to why these features should be included. With Windows Vista only receiving a luke-warm reception, Microsoft needs to make sure Windows 7 is a winner from the get go." What other features would you suggest to Microsoft if they are to have a hope for recovery?

14 of 901 comments (clear)

  1. Easy... by Naqamel · · Score: 5, Funny

    What other features would you suggest to Microsoft if they are to have a hope for recovery?

    A Linux kernel.

    1. Re:Easy... by mhall119 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Butterflies!!!

      --
      http://www.mhall119.com
    2. Re:Easy... by Adriax · · Score: 5, Funny

      Notepad!
      wait...

      --
      I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it!
    3. Re:Easy... by eno2001 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Since most of the humor impaired anti-Linux crowd have moved over to Digg, I'll play devil's idio... err... advocate.

      Yeah. Like that's a good idea... When you put Lunix on a computer, guess what? It doesn't come with drivers. The Fortune 500 businesses that make drivers for their equipment only do so for Windows and you can't use those drivers on Lunix. So what happens when you buy a brand new scanner or printer, or video card? You have to rebuild the kernel, pray to the gods CUPS and SANE, throw holy water over your shoulder and hope like hell that you don't have a $200+ brick sitting on your desk. Think that's going to make things easier for Microsoft because I don't.

      It's like Ballmer said, "Applications! Applications! Applications"! Personally, as an important executive in a Fortune 500 company, I don't have time to waste recompiling kernel after kernel and then installing software from raw source. I want things to work and I want them to work RIGHT NOW! My time is worth a lot of money and I need programs like Photoshop and Flash so I can write betas of databases my company creates so I can get the imagination-free coders under my charge to build things like normal people want. (Never let a database developer start coding until you have the prototype fully functional in Flash!)

      On top of that, Linux has ZERO support for system and application sounds. If there is one thing that will kill a database application making it in the rough and tumble market, it's a lack of action sounds. Our database sports 1400 sounds for every activity imaginable in the database. My personal favorite is the heartbeat sound when you go into bullet-time mode while scrolling through the database itself. I had to fight a few non-visionaries about putting the sound (fired them actually) into the database! I'll never understand why developers are so bad at grasping the importance of flashiness in a database application. Can you do that in Linux? HELL no! Linux just sucks for databases.

      I wouldn't touch Linux with a ten foot barge pole otherwise it might infect my beautiful and innovative mind. It seems like people who use and like Linux, lack vision and lack creativity. Instead they're perfectly happy with their grey screens from 1984 and all text data. Ugh! NO ONE in their right mind likes that kind of thing. We need the kind of flashiness you see in Vista's Aero Glass interface. That is the pinnacle of innovation in the computer world. NO ONE has ever done anything like that on any other OS.

      So as funny as you think your stupid comment is, I can tell you're just an idiot.

      --
      -"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
    4. Re:Easy... by Tsaot · · Score: 5, Funny

      Nice. 'Course there's an Emacs command to do that.

    5. Re:Easy... by meta+coder · · Score: 5, Funny

      a keygen

  2. Paucity by Just+Some+Guy · · Score: 5, Funny

    What other features would you suggest to Microsoft if they are to have a hope for recovery?

    The ability to boot on a single core with 1GB of RAM in under 5 minutes?

    --
    Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
  3. Some suggestions by bsDaemon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Perhaps they could take FreeBSD, perhaps with a customized Mach kernel, and add a fancy, easy to use and intuitive graphical user interface?

    oh, wait...

  4. Tombstone? by Rinisari · · Score: 5, Funny

    What other features would you suggest to Microsoft if they are to have a hope for recovery?

    A crust that rises.

    --
    Colin Dean Go a year without DRM
  5. Windows 7 fix by 192939495969798999 · · Score: 5, Funny

    1. edit the boot screen from "windows XP" to say "windows 7", then just re-release it as the new version and continue to refine XP's codebase. problems solved!

    --
    stuff |
  6. FORWARD SLASHES by alan_dershowitz · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's 2008. Dump the triumvirate of Windows design retardedness:

    1. Drive letters (we are not using CP/M)
    2. Backward slashes for directory separation (we are not using DOS)
    3. CRLF (we are not using a typewriter!)

  7. Re:ANYTHING as long as it doesn't fragment so easi by Broken+Toys · · Score: 5, Funny

    Windows isn't fragmenting your files, it's sharing them with otherwise unoccupied sectors on your hard drive.

    Another legitimate use of file sharing in my opinion.

  8. Re:You fool! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You get a message from Carly Fiorina?

  9. Obligatory Vista joke... by Crazyswedishguy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Enabling safe mode (for games) with networking pretty much disables the "safe" portion of that equation

    2Good4U96 is trying to fire a rocket at you.
    Accept or deny?

    --
    This space up for sale.