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The 30 Best Features of Windows

Posted by timothy on from the double-glazing-is-delicious dept.

Barence writes "PC Pro has picked out its 30 best features of Windows 8. Its countdown includes features such as the revamped Task Manager, the option to run ISOs and VHDs natively, and Windows To Go, which allows you to take a portable installation of Windows 8 with you." They've also listed ten features they'd like to see added to Windows 8, "including the return of the Start button on the desktop, virtual desktops and one-click sharing of optical drives."

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  1. Not all are features, not all "new" by erroneus · · Score: -1, Redundant

    #3 is not new. It has been done before... on Linux for decades and under Windows using special tools... some even Microsoft tools.

    #4 is not a feature. It's just that they didn't "Vista" the next version.

    #5 Really?! Being able to do what switches and soft-switches have been doing for a very long time now "supported by the OS" is a feature? Way to copy Microsoft.

    #6 More cloud? People are still interested in this?

    #7 Windows Store? Worked for Apple... should work for Microsoft too right? I doubt it. People don't want that. Apple gives them no choice, the go back to Windows. Microsoft gives them no choice, they go to...?

    #10 Really? Typing on touchscreens are already kind of a pain and kind of difficult... often made worse by "predictions" and "corrections" made by the entry system. Now they will tell you which fingers to use when typing?

    #12 Again, NOT doing something or doing less of something is a feature?

    #14 Improved compared to what?

    #15 Once again, taking from your "developers developers developers!" The path to "success" is laid out before them... just copy what your developers do into your products and put them out of business.

    #18 Now they are copying "pirates" too! Nice.

    #23 Groups? Is that anything like folders in the old menu structures? Is it new or is it how the old menus were moved into the new look?

    #29 Native support for a technology that has been out for a while. Feature? It is as far as Microsoft is concerned.

    #30 Been at it with Linux for what? Seems like forever. It's new for them, old for everyone else.

    I'm too lazy to comment on all of them. Some are more "newish" but none are must-haves or earth shattering.