18 Features Windows Should Have (but Doesn't)

Iria · May 1, 2008, 05:35 AM

Some of the coolest OS features are nowhere to be found in Windows XP or Vista. Here are 18 brilliant features that Microsoft should beg for, borrow, or steal--plus tips on how you can add many of them to your PC now.
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Source: PC World

YAYitsAndrew · May 1, 2008, 01:25 PM

By the end of the first page I was expecting to have to write a little post saying how some of the bullet points are wrong. But as the article went on, I realized ALL of the bullet points are wrong. Pick any feature on that list and there's software that does it.

Why again do any of these features need to be built into windows? Did we all say we wanted longer boot times and hard drive footprints by default?

The stupidest one is definitely "a built in web server". The article admits that every version of windows has one built in, but it's off by default. And then it goes on to say that's a bad thing. Clearly this man has never SEEN the kind of people who use windows every day.

Judas · May 1, 2008, 07:46 PM

That article screams "i want microsoft to be a monopoly"

Vikingod · May 1, 2008, 08:17 PM

Actually I agree with many of the points. I think a handful, certainly not all, of the items are something that should be included with Windows. I could do without the effects and junk however.

ISO burning? Automatic Screenshots? Why should someone have to find an external app to get this basic functionality?

Judas · May 1, 2008, 08:22 PM

Those same questions were raised before... and look at what happened to microsoft due to it..

they started including Browsers and other such duedads in thier OS's... only for the courts to force them to rip them out + Pay the fines...

I'm all for microsoft developing and providing every single feature on that list + more.
Cause microsoft does it usually right, and if it's not right the first time, they'll make sure to fix it.

But then the monopoly freaks come flying out of the court doors screaming about it.

**dj_stick** · May 2, 2008, 12:50 AM

application dock in windows? lol

i doubt it

i'd pick taskbar/start menu over the dock in OSX any day

BlueMak · May 2, 2008, 01:32 AM

Stickies and ISO burning I agree on.
Podcasts...I hate the term as how somepeople say ipod for every dap out there, I hate it.
As for the rest of "features", I either don't care for or just dislike enough that I would disable them, or deeply not want them with Windows.

May 1, 2008, 05:35 AM	#1
Iria DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 7,275 Rep Power: 89	18 Features Windows Should Have (but Doesn't) Some of the coolest OS features are nowhere to be found in Windows XP or Vista. Here are 18 brilliant features that Microsoft should beg for, borrow, or steal--plus tips on how you can add many of them to your PC now. ____________ Source: PC World

May 1, 2008, 01:25 PM	#2
YAYitsAndrew Anti-Piracy Poster Boy Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: NJ Posts: 2,605 Rep Power: 79 System Specs	By the end of the first page I was expecting to have to write a little post saying how some of the bullet points are wrong. But as the article went on, I realized ALL of the bullet points are wrong. Pick any feature on that list and there's software that does it. Why again do any of these features need to be built into windows? Did we all say we wanted longer boot times and hard drive footprints by default? The stupidest one is definitely "a built in web server". The article admits that every version of windows has one built in, but it's off by default. And then it goes on to say that's a bad thing. Clearly this man has never SEEN the kind of people who use windows every day. __________________ "It is because the resistance to paying for copyrighted material, although often characterized as arising from a supposed technical burden or principled concern for the public interest, arises rather from exactly the same segment of the brain that is dominant in shoplifters." - Mark Helprin, Digital Barbarism In other words, it's never okay to steal even if you think you have a good reason! www.yayitsandrew.com

May 2, 2008, 01:32 AM	#7
BlueMak HH's Asteroids' Dominator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Hellas->Macedonia->Thessaloniki Posts: 13,467 Rep Power: 349 System Specs	Stickies and ISO burning I agree on. Podcasts...I hate the term as how somepeople say ipod for every dap out there, I hate it. As for the rest of "features", I either don't care for or just dislike enough that I would disable them, or deeply not want them with Windows. __________________ The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm *Sic semper tyrannis.*

May 1, 2008, 08:17 PM	#4
Vikingod Int'l Fish Liaison Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: By the light of lamp I sit and type... Posts: 16,197 Rep Power: 112 System Specs	Actually I agree with many of the points. I think a handful, certainly not all, of the items are something that should be included with Windows. I could do without the effects and junk however. ISO burning? Automatic Screenshots? Why should someone have to find an external app to get this basic functionality?