Windows 8 Features Wishlist! What do you want?
So, Microsoft is asking students what Windows 8 features they want and need. If you are looking forward to some shiny new features in Windows 8, why not suggest some yourself. You know what you want and need every day, so why not help Microsoft to make the best OS ever?
Plenty of Windows 8 features would be great. Starting from a password manager, a password-protection system for folders, managed code, support for cloud computing, simplified rights management, enhanced network tools, better integration between mobilephone, xbox and PC.
Suggest Windows 8 Features
So, it’s up to you. If you want a better Windows 8, start suggesting some new features.
We will be collecting any wishes and send them to Microsoft. We also have a wishlist on our sister site Windows7themes.net, so you might want to start there, because there we already have plenty of wishes for Windows 8!
So i suppose, i should post my suggestion right here, eh?
These are mostly about appearance, and workflow:
1) WAY more customizable shell. The default windows shell is really stiff and limited…
1.1) It's a MUST to make every part/toolbar (Start button, quick launch, task list, clock etc.) of the bottom panel a different object, which you could move anywhere you want, delete, duplicate, etc by drag'n'drop when the bottom bar is unlocked.
If the user wants to remove the start button, why not let him? If the user wants to have two start buttons on both sides of his bottom panel, why not let him? Freedom!
1.2) It's a MUST to make the start menu completely customizable by simply clicking on it with the right button and pressing “Customize” or something… For example, i would hold only these things there: “My Computer”, “Games Folder”, “Programs folder”, “Control panel” and shut down. Currently the start menu is a big mess. And that mess is not what people want to see.
And one more thing i was missing: I couldn't turn off pinning in the taskbar options, … WHY?
1.3) The abilitty to add more panels, even floating ones if the user wants to.
1.4) Way more flexible appearance changer. Right now we only have the Aero glass, and the classic. That's very limited. People should be able to use their own graphics for windows and the panels without no external apps, or hacking into system folders. Like, windows would have it's own app called “Windows Skin editor” which lets you create windows appearance skins. And “Personalise” should let you load in the skins you created. Or something like that…
2) Administrators should have full control over the apps that are installed on the pc. I think, it should be possible to easily uninstall the Internet Explorer, The Windows Shell, windows manager, paint, bacially anything. I know that these are highly integrated into windows, but why? People should have a freedom of choice on what to use. These could be reinstalled using the windows 8 DVD. A lot to be rewritten here.
3) Internet explorer should get major improvements.
Forcing new windows to open in new tabs instead.
Letting you have only the address bar and the tabs on the GUI…
Making the download progress show on the gui, instead of a new window…
etc. Chrome is a good example of a clean browser.
4) Windows media player should have .flac and .ogg support. These are opensource, which makes it easy to add. And there is no crime if you do. Then why isn't it there?
5) Add/Remove programs:
5.1)Add/Remove programs should have the ability to add programs into folders, to make it clean. Group uninstall maybe?
5.2) Windows should have an integrated registry error checker/cleaner, which makes sure that there are no useless registry entries in the registry. I've heard that windows keeps gathering registry, and sometimes doesn't remove registry added by installed programs… And that slows down your pc…
6) Easy moving of the “Program files” folder and the “Users” folder.
Some people like to keep these on other partitions then windows are installed.
And microsoft is really giving them a hard time… Going to the Windows CD repair console and making junctions is the only option these users have…
7) Remove the library feature from the file browser. Why do we need that if we have our home folder?…
So yeah, I like Windows. But some of these points make me really annoyed and frustrated as a user. Basically if these points are fixed, less people would leave windows for linux or Mac.
oh, and 1.5) A better Multimonitor support. Stretched Backgrounds, maximise on all monitors, panels working on other monitors, etc… If an external app can do it, why is it so hard to code in to windows?
1.6) Gadgets should be abe to be locked.
I'd like the new version of Windows to have better shells, customizable start buttons, caption buttons, and include the old xp, vista, and current windows 7 themes.
keep the start orb of win 7 and dun screw it up
how bout a cooler desktop background and patterns for the glass on the taskbar or the aero stuff
I would like to suggest an advanced feature like ‘add to copy’ in the context menu for multitasking. That will be like the following-
Suppose I want to copy Word.docx from folder ‘A’ and Excel.xlsx file from folder ‘B’ and paste them respectively to folder ‘C’ and ‘D’. With such advanced feature after coping Word.docx from folder ‘A’, I receive the context menu ‘add to copy’ on right clicking Excel.xlsx file in folder ‘B’. Then in folder ‘C’ I right click and get ‘Paste’ menu and hovering over it get sub-menus ‘Paste Word.docx’ and ‘Paste Excel.xlsx’ under it. I click on ‘Paste Word.docx’ and then going to folder ‘D’, I right click and get ‘Paste’ menu and hovering over it get one sub-menu ‘Paste Excel.xlsx’ i.e. the rest item to paste.
Maximum number of such copied file at a stretch will depend on the system memory and pagefile.
I think that Windows should include national holidays/ holidays of importance in the built in calendar. Windows already asks for the time zone, why not ask for our country as well?
Also, the above comment could be reworded as: allow us to have multiple entries on the clipboard. Then when we paste allow us to select which entry to paste. (though honestly this is more of a feature for IE 10 and notepad/mspaint)