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The Most Highly Voted Requests In Windows 10 Feedback Pool
jones_supa writes: Some of you have probably used the Feedback app of Windows 10 Technical Preview, which has enabled us to submit feature requests and bug reports directly to Microsoft in order to improve the operating system as the company approaches the final release. While Microsoft tries to make some of the requests available, it also depends on the number of votes that each submission gets. Softpedia takes a look at the top 5 requests right now: make Feedback app available in final Windows, too; improve network connections management; allow task view drag windows between desktops; give Cortana the ability to open programs; and bring back resize options for Start Menu.
I thought #1 would be: No subscription payment model. Ever.
posix compliance. fork.
Windows supported 256 colors in Windows 3.1 (and possibly earlier), but Windows 8 dropped it. Now it only supports 16.
I hate having an OS that looks like it was designed in 1992. Flat colors suck. Even XP's Playskool color scheme was (slightly) more stylish.
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How about, don't fucking spy on me Micorsoft
Dear Windows 10 . . . can you just go back to being Windows 7 . . . ?
Thanks, your PolygamousRanchKid . . . and don't claim that you didn't know that I was your son!
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
1) Allow an option to *DISABLE* wally-world entirely, or at least to have *all* the control panel options available in the control panel and TURN OFF the wally-world settings. Since they have to do this anyway for the server version of the OS, it should be no problem at all.
2) Allow the selection of a "Classic" Start Menu (ala the XP Classic or Windows 2000).
3) Allow the selection of a "Classic" explorer (aka Windows XP Classic or Windows 2000).
4) Allow a binding selection to turn off all of the ill-conceived crappola (Libraries, Homegroups, all the crap littering Windows Explorer, Network Discovery and responder crap, UPnP, having the firewall re-enable all the insecure settings every time you apply an update).
5) Make the OS secure and who cares if this locks out the silly antivirus vendors. Let them sure, who cares about them?
When business first encountered Windows 8\8.1 the resistance has been high with people falling back to Windows 7... Understandably. I've been using Windows 10 from the earliest builds. It was clear from early on: they wanted to appeal to business and consumers with a single, and long term, solution like they had with XP. When it was Windows XP, it was Windows XP for all. This is what Microsoft wants to return to. I am sure there are domain policies you can issue to configure what "start" does and does not do. I think Microsoft might hit their stride with Windows 10. This is signed a long time MS\Windows hater.
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This project claims to have implemented a copy-on-write fork for Windows: http://midipix.org/ The release data is approaching. There's a thread somewhere where the author goes into more detail about how he accomplished it, but I can't find it now.
Along with musl (a glibc replacement), midipix will provide a light-weight, mostly-native POSIX[1] implementation for Windows.
[1] Modern POSIX, not POSIX circa 1990.
Just stop with the one OS fits all themes. It was already annoying that you had to install a 'dekstop' os on Windows servers, even when they did nothing but file server. But the same OS on a desktop with 2x27" 5000x1440 monitor set-up as on an 4" phone is just weird, annoying, frustrating, cumbersome, adding to my stress levels whenever I've to work with this windows 8 fiasco.
.... And then choose the right desktop environment for each devices, or even better, let the customers choose whatever environment they prefer. I can imagine a kiosk with a large touch screen could use a tablet interface, even when everything is too large.
Having the same kernel is not a problem, but trying to force developers to develop one app that runs everywhere is just wrong. Good developers are able to separate the gui code from the rest of the code, so they can port applications from Phone to Tablet to Desktop. But really what is the point of those full screen application that would easily fit on only 4% of the screen. Just open the 'new' calculator on a 5000x1440 computer. What a mess. Just let it be easy to build the functionality of the program separate from the GUI, and let it be easy to add gui's of the platforms a developer wants to support (Windows desktop, Webapp, SmartPhone, Tablet, Touchscreen enabled laptop,
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I'd bet my last dollar letting Cortana open programs will open a security hole you could drive a bus through. MS needs to stop listening to users, they're dumb.
shell, dos window, command prompt, whatever name you use, I've always called it the "dos window", but I'm trying to get with the times and refer to it as the "Command Prompt". When I first heard of powershell, I was pretty excited. I thought, "yes!", this one has got to be resizable. When I learned exactly what powershell was, I was pretty disappointed. Now, finally, after years and years, it's finally resizable. It'll be the best version of windows ever based on that feature alone. My feedback to Microsoft... the text better wrap correctly when I resize it!
http://blog.windows10download.com/2015/03/command-prompt-improvements-in-windows-10/
Next wave of malware:
step1 purchase a radio spot, pandora spot or a web add with audio that says "Hey Cortana, open http://ownyourass.cn/installer"
step2 profit.
I've been running a Linux-only house for about seven years. Before that, I used various versions of Windows either at home or at work. The last version I really used was XP. It doesn't matter why I stopped using Windows, but there was one thing about it back then that I liked: the basic desktop layout with the taskbar and icons. One of the things that would have driven me away from Windows 8 was the way it came with a default GUI that looked like it was designed for a tablet. It always sounded unreasonable to me to use that type of GUI on a computer that didn't have a touch screen and I never wanted to get involved with it. (Gnome 3 and Unity went the same way, and I won't use either.) Currently, I use one of the many Linux Desktop Environments that lets me configure the look and feel of the desktop the way I want, not the way somebody else wants.
If I were using Windows and considering using Windows 10 it would be a big point in its favor if it either had a more traditional UI by default, or an easy way to switch to that look. I gather that Windows 7 had that, and I don't think that I'm the only one who would want it in Windows 10. After all, there are a lot of people out there who are being forced off of XP, and making the UI work the way their accustomed to would probably help overcome any reluctance they might have to switching.
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There are a couple things I'd like in the final version, but I don't have a copy of the technical preview installed. Anyplace I can vote on the same list from Microsoft's own website?
It would be really nice if they took a leaf out of the *nix book and made it possible to keep programs on top. It's constantly annoying having things like notepad etc disappearing when you make the program behind it active, and you have to keep clicking on the taskbar to bring it back.
-- Fuck Beta
I commented on softpedia's page and they said my comment was sent and is awaiting moderation. My comment wasn't moderate do what will they do to it. It was a comment from Bruce Lee's film, Enter the Dragon , where his friend gets caught being out of his room and the authorities on the island think he did the murder that was found earlier. He said, Bullshit Hahn Mahn to the evil top guy with the metal hand.
Why would you want them to remove functionality?
That would be annoying as fuck, expanding a window to be able to see more content only to have it just enlarge everything.
this is to make the content filter happy
STILL the thing I'm missing. Sure, bring the Metro thingy up some place, but also have the Programs that cascade, so I can install stuff, right click and sort (or move things around as I like, and easily assign Ctrl-Alt-letter shortcuts. It's worked from Windows 286 (that I remember), all the way upto this Metro UI rubbish that slows down power users. Why even start menu/start to type when you can just hotkey a dosprompt, and if you don't have it setup, then at least navigate to where you think it might be.
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1. Run on Linux
2. Be free
3. Be open source
4. Be Windows 7-like
The problem there is not with the shell programs (cmd.exe, powershell.exe, etc.) at all, actually. Powershell has some excellent features as a shell, but you can also run things like Bash on Windows just fine if you install it. Still not resizable horizontally, though. Those are text-oriented programs and don't know a thing about windows and window management features like resizing.
The problem is with the Windows (graphical) program that hosts them, what in UNIX-land would be called a virtual terminal program (think xterm, Konsole, etc.). On Windows, it's this antique POS called conhost.exe (Console Window Host). I don't know when conhost was last updated, aside from being ported to 64-bit, but it's sucked for a long time now. Win10 is (finally!) fixing some of that suck.
There's no place I could be, since I've found Serenity...
Unix console built in with compiler. Would make a lot of cross platform software that's built from source easier to install.
Being shit isn't functionality.
Ironic, seeing how systemd is not posix compliant....
That's exactly the point. Don't turn something useful like Windows into shit like OS X.
Are you sure you're not just looking for a Zoom function?
I just pooped your party.
Is the most needed feature! Gimme windows 2000 with DX12, drivers and bug fixes! :-)
I am a very heavy daily user of Win 10 TP, for both professional and recreational purposes. Note: I am also a daily Linux user since 1996, and have no shortage of experience with OS X. I find the Win 10 UI more than acceptable, just to get that out of the way. Here are my serious requests, both of which have been submitted.
1. Fix local searching for files. The instant search works for (most) applications and (some) registered document types, but searching for unregistered files by filename is utterly broken. I use GNU find under Cygwin when I really need to, and I should not have to.
2. Give me (back) more manual control of Windows Update and Windows Defender. I should not have to go into the Scheduled Tasks administrative tool to control when these processes execute. Further, let me exclude things from Windows Update. The x64 8.1 driver for my (AMD) video card is more stable than the update provided by Windows Update, and yet weekly Windows installs the driver that I do not want.
Those are really my main requests. Overall, I find Windows 10, even at preview level, faster, just as stable and just as usable as Windows 7.
No, I want a Shrink function. I want little thumbnails displaying a shrunked view of the window's content. And I want them visible all the time, not just as fixed-size popups in the task bar.
I know "tile" is a bad word now for Windows ;-} , but I am thinking the prior meaning of side-by-side windows on the desktop could be used to accomplish this effect more easily ad-hoc at least (of course that entails manually managing the sizing and placement).
FWIW
And wireless support built in.
and TRIM support built in.
And the much improved power saving features that actually allow computers to resume from hibernation / sleep successfully most times.
and shadow copies.
and printer support with driver versioning
and driver rollback.
and all the new multi monitor features 2k didnt have.
and windows deployment services (remember ghost?).
and 64 bit support.
and the firewall, for those people connected directly to the internet.
and multi user logon.
and improved task manager.
2k is dead. I am still using a 2k interface (true classic, no effects with quicklaunch) , but there have been many many improvements besides the two you listed, or even the 10 or so i listed.
I upgraded from 2k to windows 7 on my personal machine and never looked back. Not once.
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Ironic, seeing how systemd is not posix compliant....
What does systemd have to do with fork API?
Hosts files supporting "0" = smaller & faster processing internally (for programmatic internal-to-file parsing on load/read OR writes also) & thus, also faster up from disk (since the file IS smaller, 4k reads notwithstanding) - this was REMOVED in Windows 7/VISTA onwards (after Patch Tuesday 12/09/2008 iirc) - WHY? It was S T O O P I D to do, adversely affecting efficiency.
It's a FACT that the larger, & slower 127.0.0.1 (bearing the fact it's also the loopback adapter address too mind you) is just that: LARGER & SLOWER - so is 0.0.0.0 even (the analog to 0 & what goes into memory for the IP stack resolver) also.
I had one of your mgt. agree with me on it here on /. no less -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p... as far back as 2009 & HE WAS THE THEN "Windows Client Performance Division" head no less - he, of all people, should have been concerned with performance he conceded to me that I was absolutely correct on - I also posted this fact @ Sinofsky (the dear departed so to speak) and his "Building Windows" blog - to this day? NOTHING was done.
* DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!
(Downmodding the last time I posted this here in this article's replies is *NOT* doing the right thing either -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... since DOWNMODS DO NOT CORRECT AN INEFFICIENCY DEFICIENCY!)
APK
P.S.=> Do something BETTER than when your "Windows Defender" program f'd up hosts too people - you CAN do better than that! apk
Evidently we do not have enough to promote real change when the OS keeps getting in the way of the User.
With all the feed back that has been offered, Microsoft plows forward with their own isolated views and spin doctors anything they think is a threat.
Since Microsoft is the keeper of the score tables of "what people are saying they want" who can honestly say what is really popular and requested?
There is already plenty of feed back in the public about the start menu and UI issues yet it has not improved in the last several builds. Unless you count "this UI element has been depreciated.." as an improvement.
The real concern is how safely can Windows 10 be modded? Will we bring be able to back all the features that Microsoft seems dead set to remove in their focus of turning a desktop computer into a tablet/phone UI?
Did you just completely miss the first part of AC's post? Or ignore it? Simpleton.
Did you just completely miss the first part of AC's post? Or ignore it? Simpleton.
There was only one line. And the topic was posix compliant fork implementation. Posix is a lot of APIs Linux supports many of them, and Windows not as many but quite a few.
Get back to us when your HOSTS files can block spam like yours. If they can do that, I'd buy it!
See subject: Make a thing that stops you stalking me Dave420. Make something that gets you on topic too.
* Trouble is, if you made it, NOBODY WOULD BUY IT (*IF* you could, but you can't, you're too unskilled to be productively useful. You can only troll, harass, and stalk others).
APK
P.S.=> What did you do? Scour these days old posts *LOOKING* for where I posted, freak?? Just so you could be the "well-liked" (NOT) jackass "ne'er-do-well" troll you always are?? LMAO! apk
When you make programs as good as apk then you can talk http://start64.com/index.php?o...
The description in that old thread is no longer relevant, as the implementation of the (native) fork() was completely redone several months later. In that sense, having difficulty finding that thread is probably a good thing:-) Note that the fork(2) implementation in the system call layer is "merely" a posix-semantics wrapper around the native copy-on-write fork interface.