slowestborg Posted February 21, 2004 Share Posted February 21, 2004 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akaladis Veteran Posted February 21, 2004 Veteran Share Posted February 21, 2004 dunno if they're actually gonna do it or not, but i want a decentralized registy :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bucko Posted February 21, 2004 Share Posted February 21, 2004 Huh, it's just a more boged down version than Windows xp. Windows 95 is better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freakyfriday Posted February 21, 2004 Share Posted February 21, 2004 what features are added in longhorn again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akaladis Veteran Posted February 21, 2004 Veteran Share Posted February 21, 2004 ah! i also want it to be able to make some coffee... i doubt they will add that feature though :angry: :argh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJAJ Posted February 21, 2004 Share Posted February 21, 2004 native rieserfs support Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxdesmus Posted February 21, 2004 Share Posted February 21, 2004 native RAID/SATA support, native 64 bit support Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akaladis Veteran Posted February 21, 2004 Veteran Share Posted February 21, 2004 how about a system temperature meter in the performance tab of task manager :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liebe Posted February 21, 2004 Share Posted February 21, 2004 MS office included Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freakyfriday Posted February 21, 2004 Share Posted February 21, 2004 how about a system temperature meter in the performance tab of task manager :p now, that would be neat :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxdesmus Posted February 21, 2004 Share Posted February 21, 2004 how about a system temperature meter in the performance tab of task manager :p i second that, this would be a great idea... and Liebe ...they'd never do that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slowestborg Posted February 21, 2004 Author Share Posted February 21, 2004 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El_Cu_Guy Posted February 22, 2004 Share Posted February 22, 2004 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osiris Posted February 24, 2004 Share Posted February 24, 2004 ^^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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idkfa Posted February 24, 2004 Share Posted February 24, 2004 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEMO.INC Posted February 24, 2004 Share Posted February 24, 2004 I would like to stop the dll or file replacement hell.. I mean when you install an app and replaces system files just because and sometimes with older versions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StAnGeR04 Posted February 24, 2004 Share Posted February 24, 2004 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 from '05-'06 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrimsonBlur Posted February 24, 2004 Share Posted February 24, 2004 (edited) 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 :) Edited February 24, 2004 by CrimsonBlur Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y_notm Posted February 25, 2004 Share Posted February 25, 2004 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: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slowestborg Posted February 25, 2004 Author Share Posted February 25, 2004 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umerh Posted February 25, 2004 Share Posted February 25, 2004 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocks1985 Posted February 26, 2004 Share Posted February 26, 2004 My Calendars. in addition to the other "My Shell Folders" (My Pictures, My Documents, My Contacts...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocks1985 Posted February 26, 2004 Share Posted February 26, 2004 ...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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForkliftDude Posted February 26, 2004 Share Posted February 26, 2004 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBJdesigns Posted February 26, 2004 Share Posted February 26, 2004 I like the heat/temp suggestion... See atchmnt... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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