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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 don't mind a subscription model if it is cheap enough and I get upgrades forever.
However given Microsoft's history of upgrades, maybe it is not a good idea.
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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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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"I don't mind a subscription model if it is cheap enough and I get upgrades forever."
And it doesn't cruft up and slow down over time, and a reinstall doesn't require 2 days of reconfiguring everything, and the upgrades don't break things by requiring new apps and drivers, and they don't move all the configuration settings again, and, and, and.
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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,
It wouldn't stop people from asking; but this one seems like one of those "either inevitable, or nothing to worry about" requests.
If MS is in a situation where they think that they can(as with Adobe and their 'Creative Cloud' licensing move for CS versions 6+), the money will just be too good to pass up and they'll force the issue. Maybe keep around a few overpriced non-subscription SKUs that mysteriously turn out to cost about as much as the subscription price over their supported lifetime just to silence the whiners; but structure the incentives such that almost nobody will buy that. In a lot of enterprise contexts, this is already substantially the case, and some flavor of 'Software Assurance' is already being paid.
If MS is in a situation where they think they'll sacrifice platform dominance if they push it, they'll fold. Observe the existence of "Windows 8.1 with Bing", which is basically "Free anywhere you would have installed ChromeOS or Android if we charged you $50", and the general low to zero price of OEM Windows on the various tablety things that are knife fighting with Android or ChromeOS on the low end.
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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.
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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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.
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Ironic, seeing how systemd is not posix compliant....
Is the most needed feature! Gimme windows 2000 with DX12, drivers and bug fixes! :-)