What Windows 7 SP1 or Internet Explorer 9 should have?

[SuperJediMedia]

First, IE 9 should be called IE 2010 instead, sounds cooler what you all think?

1) Alright, I have always wanted a "Breaking News" Alert system on Windows, or IE. Whenever there is a Breaking News, I get an Alarm on my computer waking me up! Maybe there is already a 3rd party software that can do this?

Or Any news, that you are very very interested in, even personal events!

2) Smarter system, period. I am not impressed Windows 7 still can NOT do this. :|

Whatever is slowing down the computer, making the computer slow there should be a 'Doctor' in Taskbar notification area WHAT is causing it - File name or process name. And see what solutions are available.

If it's because computer needs to be defragmented. It should tell you that. Or if IE has a bug, tell you that...

[KeeperOfThePizza]

First, IE 9 should be called IE 2010 instead, sounds cooler what you all think?

1) Alright, I have always wanted a "Breaking News" Alert system on Windows, or IE. Whenever there is a Breaking News, I get an Alarm on my computer waking me up! Maybe there is already a 3rd party software that can do this?

2) Smarter system, period. I am not impressed Windows 7 still can NOT do this. :|

Whatever is slowing down the computer, making the computer slow there should be a 'Doctor' in Taskbar notification area WHAT is causing it - File name or process name. And see what solutions are available.

If it's because computer needs to be defragmented. It should tell you that. Or if IE has a bug, tell you that...

1. sounds cool, but could be annoying since there is breaking news every minute of the day

2. kinda lame but i know what you're insisting.

3. IE 2010? ick! IE 9.0 sounds fine

[Ci7]

for the first , maybe an IE accerlator is what you need. i dunno

and dont place your bet on SP1 it would just pack secuirty fixes , hotfixes not packing features

[Cold Blood]

Extensions :D.

[phot0nic]

First, IE 9 should be called IE 2010 instead, sounds cooler what you all think?

Ick, god no. The only excuse for software to be named after a year is if it has a regular, yearly release. Even then, many pieces of software suffer from "year inflation" (eg. Autodesk products). It annoys me that it's 2009, and the latest stable MS Office suite is "MS Office 2007". Now, if a new version of IE is released every year, on schedule, then maybe. I still prefer version numbers.

1) Alright, I have always wanted a "Breaking News" Alert system on Windows, or IE. Whenever there is a Breaking News, I get an Alarm on my computer waking me up! Maybe there is already a 3rd party software that can do this?

Or Any news, that you are very very interested in, even personal events!

This is interesting. Though, "breaking" is subjective here. What kinds of things do you consider breaking? I'm sure that what you want is possible now, somehow through RSS feeds and third party programs/services. If you let us know specifically what you want, I'm sure you can get this working now.

2) Smarter system, period. I am not impressed Windows 7 still can NOT do this. :|

Whatever is slowing down the computer, making the computer slow there should be a 'Doctor' in Taskbar notification area WHAT is causing it - File name or process name. And see what solutions are available.

If it's because computer needs to be defragmented. It should tell you that. Or if IE has a bug, tell you that...

Well... Windows kind of already does this. It's called the task manager. It lists all of your processes, and their respective resource consumptions. It also gives you an opportunity to end tasks that are causing problems.

I mean, defrag problems? These are minor at most, and are automatically resolved by default through the built-in use of scheduled defrags. IE bugs? Once a bug is confirmed and fixed, Microsoft automatically pushes an update through Windows Update.

What additional functionality are you looking for?

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My requests:

Win7 SP1: It's just a service pack, so minor performance improvements, maybe? I'm not expecting much, and anything significant should be held for Windows 8+.

IE9: Better standards compliance? Better page loading times? More customization over the UI? A larger collection of add-ons to rival Firefox's? Any of these would do. That said, I don't really care because I rarely use IE.

[garlandchaos]

Mine is simple. More options for auto arrange desktop icons. I've always wondered why auto arrange only arranges to the left. They should add an option to change which direction the icons are arranged (left, right, top or bottom of screen).

[DrCheese]

You do realise that a service pack will contain virtually no UI changes and certainly no major features (that you'd notice anyway) XP SP2 was the exception and it's unlike MS will ever do anything like that again.

[Growled Member]

If IE9 would just be fast and have a few extensions I would be happy.

[seta-san]

First, IE 9 should be called IE 2010 instead, sounds cooler what you all think?

1) Alright, I have always wanted a "Breaking News" Alert system on Windows, or IE. Whenever there is a Breaking News, I get an Alarm on my computer waking me up! Maybe there is already a 3rd party software that can do this?

Or Any news, that you are very very interested in, even personal events!

2) Smarter system, period. I am not impressed Windows 7 still can NOT do this. :|

Whatever is slowing down the computer, making the computer slow there should be a 'Doctor' in Taskbar notification area WHAT is causing it - File name or process name. And see what solutions are available.

If it's because computer needs to be defragmented. It should tell you that. Or if IE has a bug, tell you that...

1)FAIL.. There is nothing that ****es me off more than when movies/games/products go from numbering to quirky names to years and back. IE Windows 1,2,3,95,98, ME, XP, Vista, and back to numbering with 7

2) try task manager. it will tell you what is lockedup. how much memory programs are using and what %cpu

[Justin-]

IE9? Dump the Trident engine and use Webkit. IE is the slowest mainstream browser and has the least innovative features. Let's not even talk about HTML5 (though it's still a draft, other browsers have at least started implementing a nice portion of it)... :( They should just dump the Trident engine in its entirety. It's not going to happen, even though it'd be the best thing for the consumer in the long run...

W7 is already great, any changes in SP1 will just be icing. :)

[seta-san]

You do realise that a service pack will contain virtually no UI changes and certainly no major features (that you'd notice anyway) XP SP2 was the exception and it's unlike MS will ever do anything like that again.

you are absolutely correct. after the blaster and sasser virus' microsoft was forced to redouble it's efforts on security. What was released i would have actually called a free copy of Windows 2004. As necessary as it was it took too many resources from Longhorn. I still think the original vision for longhorn is far better than Vista or 7

[iron2000]

IE9 should have extensions.

Real extensions not some standalone program.

Maybe more free and useful extensions.

[M_Lyons10]

As for an IE name change, I prefer version numbers myself. I think it's more accurate. I have IE 9.0.1.234, cool. I have IE 2010, O.K., but what version?

As for new stuff. I don't expect much, but it would definitely be cool. I would love an update to the desktop, but maybe we'll see that in Windows 8...

[splur]

Extensions :D.

Yes, exactly. It's the most practical and least abstract thing we can all ask for in IE9.

[revanmj]

I agree that IE9 should be based on WebKit, MS develops Trident too slowly to compete with other browser engines. It should get download manager too.

[ilovetech]

first of all SP1 would be a "service Pack" & not "feature pack",

IE9?? : No, i don't need any more IE, happy with FF & Chrome.

"Breaking News": yes a cool idea.

[BlueFiberOptics]

Microsoft should abandon the Trident engine and adopt another one. Webkit would be nice, but I wouldn't complain if Microsoft went with Gecko.

[Ci7]

first of all SP1 would be a "service Pack" & not "feature pack",

IE9?? : No, i don't need any more IE, happy with FF & Chrome.

"Breaking News": yes a cool idea.

that doesnt mean that no one use it

Microsoft should abandon the Trident engine and adopt another one. Webkit would be nice, but I wouldn't complain if Microsoft went with Gecko either.

nah , why would they? just because everyone is doing that doesn't mean that they should

[ilovetech]

that doesnt mean that no one use it

ya sure, but i was my own opinion.

[jesseinsf]

First: I think windows 7 should warn the user that there hardware is to old and that they should upgrage for better performance...This way it will stop the complainers from complaining about speed and file transfers issues. It's not always the hardware, it could actually be the OS or just the user causing the issues.

Second: I would like a feature that would make it easy to be able to move the icons in the task bar towards the center of the task bar.

third: IE just needs improvement in loading pages more fast and smoothly and render pages better

[+Anarkii Subscriber²]

I like OPs idea of the taskbar doctor. Although we have something allready 'i.e. - (Action Center) - It could be improved to display an alert to what is slowing down the system, giving you one click access to the process that is running, and give you the option to kill it, along with not responding applications.

Other then that, for skinning - change the graphics for explorer.exe and put it back in the mssystles file for so we dont have to mess with replacing the explorer.exe file. Other then that, im more than happy with Windows 7, so anything that gets done on top of them two requests would be welcomed, specially performance wise :)

[Solid Knight]

The only thing stopping my from using IE full time is ad-blocking that also collapses elements and an editable context menu. I hate having a bazillion context menu entries. At least in Windows I can regedit the ones I don't want out or hide them (SHIFT + RIGHT CLICK to view).

[iamwhoiam]

All I want from SP1 is the damned annoying bugs of explorer fixed. How some of those bugs ever got past Q&A, I'll never understand.

It should get download manager too.

It'd be in the EU courts before it was ever released.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

IE9? Dump the Trident engine and use Webkit. IE is the slowest mainstream browser and has the least innovative features. Let's not even talk about HTML5 (though it's still a draft, other browsers have at least started implementing a nice portion of it)... :( They should just dump the Trident engine in its entirety. It's not going to happen, even though it'd be the best thing for the consumer in the long run...

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HTML5 is going to be a draft for a long time, but that doesn't mean browser makers shouldn't be implementing features from it. The important thing to remember is that they all are implementing features from HTML5, even MS.

Although, MS would never drop Trident for WebKit (WebKit is controlled by Apple and Google).

But, they could do some work on the JS engine (brining it up to par with other browsers in speed and spec compliance), and adding some much needed features to the rendering engine (like the CSS3 modules that are done or near done)

[rawr_boy81]

I agree that IE9 should be based on WebKit, MS develops Trident too slowly to compete with other browser engines. It should get download manager too.

There is a webkit plugin for Internet Explorer which replaces trident with webkit when a certain HTML tag is present in the document. Hopefully Internet Explorer 8 is the beginning of some major changes given that Internet Explorer 8 was a major clean up which hopefully will lay the road for new features being added a lot quicker.