Microsoft Windows 7 "Wishlist" Leaked
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ScuttleMonkey
on Tue Nov 13, 2007 06:20 PM
from the leaky-news-always-suspect dept.
from the leaky-news-always-suspect dept.
Cassius Corodes is one of many readers to point out that a recent "wishlist" of new Windows development features is floating around the net. This list was supposedly leaked from Microsoft and contains some of their key development features for the next version of Windows. Given that the next new Windows release is bound to be a long way off I would recommend seasoning this news with a hefty dose of sodium chloride.
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Keep those wishes coming (Score:5, Insightful)
Back up XBOX 360 games to Windows PC - Ain't gonna happen
New PIP functionality for Media Center - PIP *.WMA/L
Infinite desktop, virtual desktop idea - Maybe they could port fvwm
Option to "Reopen Closed tabs" in IE - This will be addressed via "Are you sure you want to close this tab?"
Auto clean of Temp folders - How about including a way to define which are temp folders.
How about fixing the paging to use it's own partition, ffs!
Re:Keep those wishes coming (Score:5, Insightful)
I believe this is refering to the save files stored on the HD and not the actual games.
Re:I Wish (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, they should be doing that. But you're right on the mark, it's not going to justify new OS sales if they don't "revolutionize" things every few years. Look at how slow Vista has been taking off, even with many OEM's shipping it unless you specify otherwise.
Here's what I think the next evolution of windows will be: vista with a fresh coat of paint and a few new system-intensive bells and whistles that don't add much in terms of actual functionality. The key "feature" will be a bunch of built in hooks to use pay-as-you-go subscription web applications hosted by MS.
Re:Am I the only person who makes a 2nd partition? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:I've done it since Win3.1 (Score:5, Insightful)
I began noticing this with Windows 95. The bastards said it would run in 4MB of memory. Technically it would, if you only ever wanted to start it up. (12MB was the bare minimum to run some modest apps without paging.) I admined a Dec PDP 11/45 and learned a lot about tuning a system for performance. When you had 256 KB of memory, 2 88MB HDDs, a 4 MB core memory swap disk (anyone ever see a Megastore? :) and had to shared nicely among as many as 40 users at a time, you learned how to get the most out of it. Seems the approach these days is: Throw more money at it. Buy more RAM, bigger HDD, upgrade (why do Windows upgrades always require tonnes more RAM?), faster CPU, etc. Performance tuning at Microsoft seems blasphemy.
Re:Am I the only person who makes a 2nd partition? (Score:5, Funny)
they wish... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:they wish... (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, but they will find some way to tell you it does!
"Windows7 - Sales up 27% over Windows Vista among one-legged, blind, ambisexual, vegetarian, wombat herders born under a full moon in a month with an R in it"
Open Source Sodium Chloride (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Open Source Sodium Chloride (Score:5, Funny)
but Johnny is no more.
What Johnny thought was H2O
was H2SO4.
Re:Open Source Sodium Chloride (Score:5, Funny)
Sorry, the project's on hold while the development team debates GPLv3 vs. BSD licensing. Currently it can only detect sulfuric and nitric acids, though it does have real nifty Gnome integration.
Follow-up story (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Follow-up story (Score:5, Informative)
Because modding it informative is funny.
Standard Microsoft Operating Procedure (Score:5, Funny)
Step 2: Seed the marketplace with rumours about how great the next version will be
Step 3: Sell a lot of awful product (this is the Profit!!! step)
Step 4: Develop next version, dropping cool features and instead devoting more development time to Microsoft Bob, Clippy, and meaningless user-interface tweaks
Loop around to Step 1.
My Windows 7 Wishlist (Score:5, Insightful)
No DRM
No Bloat
No Eye Candy
No ClearType
No Authentication or WGA
No Restrictions for Video or Audio Output
No Search Indexing
Re:My Windows 7 Wishlist (Score:5, Insightful)
Who here thinks they should just re-release Windows 2000 with longer support period and updated drivers?
Maybe they can add full disk encryption if they feel like being generous
Re:My Windows 7 Wishlist (Score:5, Insightful)
But no ClearType or Search Indexing? WTF, those are very very useful features. ClearType lets me actually read text on a monitor without gagging at his hideous it all is, and search indexing makes searching orders of magnitude faster at the cost of a few megabytes. Both are no-brainers.
Corporate development cycle (Score:5, Funny)
1. Telepathy
2. Time Travel
3. Prescience
4. Anomie
5. 4D Interface
6. Zen
7. Levitation
More to the list... (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Why didn't they include... (Score:5, Funny)
I'd like to see the option on boot "Load a lot of libraries you probably will never use, but will take up half your system memory, on start-up (Y/N)
Re:Why didn't they include... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Sand-poundingly obvious things ... (Score:5, Funny)
Greetings from here in 2007! How is life for you in 2012? Has Duke Nukem Forever shipped yet?
And In Other News... (Score:5, Funny)
And in other news, the heads of Solaris users around the world exploded into what one witness described as "a lethal conflagration born out of self-righteousness and impotence."
Re:wheres your innovation? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Wow, Microsoft innovation (Score:5, Funny)