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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.
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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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,
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 just took a look at the feedback lists, and suggestions related to the look and feel are in the top twenty or thirty popularity-wise (probably higher if you combine them). I counted at least two popular suggestions to bring back Aero Glass as an option, and one suggested perhaps even Luna. There was also another suggesting that simply indicated they weren't happy with the flat modern look, while another wanted to see transparency options.
On the other hand, there was one high-ranking suggestion that while they liked the flat look, they wanted to see more icons re-stylized to match the new look.
Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.