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.

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Re:Surprising

[graphius]

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.

Bring Back Aero Glass

[captjc]

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.

Re:Bring Back Aero Glass

[lgw]

You forgot "OMG Ponies"! And the Cowboy Neal option.

Re:Bring Back Aero Glass

[Dutch Gun]

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.

simple

[Anonymous Coward]

How about, don't fucking spy on me Micorsoft

Re:simple

[Bozzio]

Sounds like a reasonable request. Do you know of any examples where Microsoft has spied on its users through Windows?

Re:Surprising

[msauve]

"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.

Not a one OS fits all

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

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, .... 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.

Re:Surprising

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

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.

Re:What Microsoft Wants: The Next Windows XP

[AmiMoJo]

I know it was over 13 years ago, but people forget what the initial reaction to XP was like. People mocked the Fisher-Price interface and the new start menu. They complained that it wasn't as good or as clean as Windows 2000, or that dropping DOS in favour of a "broken" compatibility layer was forcing them to stick with Windows 98. Of course their favourite games didn't work properly and security enhancements like driver signing and making the default account a normal user were just fascism.

Remember that Windows XP didn't even have the firewall enabled by default until SP2. It took years to get good and become widely adopted, and was helped by the fact that 98 and ME were so terrible.