Query: What features should be added to Longhorn?

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MS has announced a lot of new features and capabilities that will/might be in the next version of Windows.

What other features do you think should be included?

Forget about all the stuff that may be considered as antitrust behaviour. Just imagine your perfect Windows.

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MS office included
they'd never do that

XxDesmus_MODxX is right. MS Office is too much of a cash cow for Microsoft to give it away with Windows.

Besides, Windows already comes with basic word processing features in the form of Wordpad.

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Kill the registry (set up a psuedo-registry for legacy software).

UI stuff:

Tabbed UI (not limited to the browser extensions to explorer shell)

dynamic menu bar (simlar to MacOS) maybe

dynamic toolbar tile for sidebar (move toolbar icons to sidebar that change dynamically depending on which app window is active)

smaller menu/status bar (that thing is HUGE!)

better automatic program grouping

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^^so basically youd just like Windows Machorn?

id like to see, the contacts section being able to have password security, encryption and the ability to add photos to the contacts. I like my lil contact apps but all of them are lacking in various ways. MS is onto something alright with the new contact thing but they could do better, and I hope they do.

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One thing I have wanted for a while now is the ability to change the order of tasks on the taskbar by dragging them, like you can do with documents in Visual Studio or webpages with some of those 'tabbed browsing' extensions for Firefox.

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why would you want that?

at times dll's get new functions with newer versions

and if that's the case with Longhorn as I'm sure it will be

there's not telling what would happen

but that's just a highly educated guess we're still a ways off

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I think it would make things easier for those of us that don't know all of the features Longhorn is supporting to have that information in this thread, or a link to most of that information. I'm having a hard time finding stuff on all of the features it has/is supposed to have. That way not just people that follow Longhorn news can talk about the features they'd like to see, without being flamed by talking about features it already has. I don't have time to go through the forum and find a bunch of tidbits of information.

I have heard that the GUI will be vector-based. That is awesome. I would like to see a 3D vector-based GUI, I'm not sure if that is what they have in mind. Or at least have DirectX integrated into the GUI like Apple has integrated OpenGL, and I don't just mean to give the 2D visuals some acceleration. I'd like to see some stuff done with 3D acceleration. Even if a 3D interface ends up sucking, and you just revert back to a normal style, I'd still like to see that happen. Not a lot has really been done on the interface side of things for a very long time.

I'd also like to be able to integrate ANY Web browser engine into Windows like IE is currently used now. I would like it if you could just install, say, Firebird, and not have IE at all, and use the Firebird render engine throughout the OS. Because, if MS is not going to update IE anymore, and work will still go on for other browsers, the speed of loading content, etc. could be improved with each release of those engines. I'm not sure how that would work, I'm not a programmer or an expert in those types of applications, but that would be cool :)

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The GUI will be 3d accerated through DirectX, and IE will still be worked on. The standalone IE (aka the version of IE included with pre-LH windows, will not go beyond version 6)

I can't really think of any features I would want that arent currently slated for inclusion... except possibly the ability to dynamically change a skin's color like WB3+ can do, and add the ability to make the color different for every window open. Imagine your desktop, glass theme, with one window a frosted white color, another tinted red, another blue, and so on. :cool:

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I think it would make things easier for those of us that don't know all of the features Longhorn is supporting to have that information in this thread, or a link to most of that information.  I'm having a hard time finding stuff on all of the features it has/is supposed to have.  That way not just people that follow Longhorn news can talk about the features they'd like to see, without being flamed by talking about features it already has.  I don't have time to go through the forum and find a bunch of tidbits of information.

Maybe I should have phrased my original post differently. The intent was to find out what everyone wanted to see in the next version of Windows. However, I may have been a bit naive in thinking that everyone on this board would be versed in the knowledge of what's going on with Longhorn.

I personally don't know all the announced features of Longhorn either. However, one of the sites that I find summarises this information the best is Paul Thurrott's site. Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows. This may not be as all-encompassing as some might want but it serves its purpose.

I hope that any readers that don't closely follow Longhorn news will also post their ideas about what they would like to see in future incarnations of Windows.

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One thing that Longhorn do is. It must be able to detect the type of application that is running so that it may work accordingly. Like if I have a virus running, Longhorn must be able to judge that its a virus and I have to remove it.

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...Although I think that by creating the "My Shell Folders", Microsoft increases the chance that novice users will be moving actual files around the harddrive, thus disturbing applications that attempt to log each file to its orginal place, and only create a UI that lets users visually move files around. If microsoft wants to continue using these shells as places to go, they should somehow create a tracking system so that when a file is moved, applications that need original file locations (e.g. iTunes) will play the moved songs without users having to search for them.

of course, i don't know enough about computers to back up what i'm really talking about, so i'd need confirmation on what i'm saying before i can stop calling this jibberish. : P

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One thing that Longhorn do is. It must be able to detect the type of application that is running so that it may work accordingly. Like if I have a virus running, Longhorn must be able to judge that its a virus and I have to remove it.

and how is that supposed to work? binary code is binary code.

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