What Do You Think Windows Version 7/Vienna Will Look Like?
Filed under: Computers, Software | By: Ryan
Posted on: July 29, 2007 | 25 Comments
Of course, Microsoft has kept secret every and any details regarding their new operating system known as both Windows 7 and Vienna, of which more can be found out, here. The question arises however, what features should it have? What improvements NEED to be made? Hopefully, Windows’ security problems will be dealt with by then, which I doubt sincerely.
Personally, I feel a new interface will be inevitable, with perhaps a slight adjustment to the RAM-eating operating system Windows vista has turned out to be. “They don’t want to commit because they don’t have a good idea what’s in it,” said Michael Silver, an analyst with Gartner Inc. “We’re three years out, so you can’t really expect that much detail.”
What changes do you think need to be made to Vista? What do you think Windows 7 could or should possibly hold?
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I think Microsoft should complete the transition, and make it look like a Mac.
Yeah, with the the widgets and smooth interface, windows vienna will most definitaley look like a Mac operating system. I can almost guarantee it.
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I think they should make Windows 7 a modular OS. Ensure 2-4 feature upgrades IE: Multimedia etc.
They should be able to produce a base system that will be secure and stable enough for business and home users to use without all the havey hardware requirements.
If you want the fancy stuff….you pay extra for it…and get it.
I think the new Windows FS that was promised for Vista should be incorporated into Server 2008, nevermind Vienna…
NTFS was great for NT/2000, but the file system is not enough for the current security concious world.
That and some cool gadgets too!
If Microsoft really wants Windows to be more Mac-like, it should rip off Linux like Apple does. Personally, I hope “Vienna” will lose or alter the Aero Glass interface. I think too many of its elements look like cheap shiny plastic. The same goes for OS X. I’d really like to see some choice in (un)installing “features” like Media Center, Windows Mail, and IE. We all know /that/ ain’t going to happen any time soon.
The way things are going, I think my next operating system is going to look a lot like Linux.
cheers,
Gard
I am ready for slick. I want to be very impressed (think outside the bun!). If so, I will imediately upgrade.
When you talk about a new version of an operating system, one should differentiate between features, functions, and security, plus more, which we can not anticipate.
That said; let me try to explain what I would like to see in the next version of Windows:
=== No backward compatibility. Start fresh. Look forward.
=== Redesign the registry; assess its utility. If you keep it, make it “bulletproof”, from rootkits and other malware.
=== Integrate Virtualization which might be preferred to System Restore. I want the physical OS protected, while I use the virtual OS. (Just a question: Does Linux have virtualization? Apple-Mac?)
=== Continue to improve User types. Most of the family in my house use the “Guest” account, even though they live here.
=== Make home networking simpler.
=== Support the ISPs efforts to thwart piracy, phishing, netbots and other malware with better server software.
Please, please, bring back “filmstrip’ It was the best thing in XP. Indispensablewhen you come from the field with 1000 digital shots top sort through, it is the best thing going to rapidly find, discard or save shots of an event.
I think it should have a “mode” feature, that allows it to act/do/and be as any of the “popular” former Windows, so that people that are used to “Old Windows” can still use it and not wonder where everything is, and suffer the “lag” or “learn term” / “learning curve” and people that like to see “New Windows” can play around and see what it does. That way it get’s the best of all worlds, and people will purchase it since it’s just like before, but “more stable” and supported for years to come. A FAST system that doesn’t require a lot of resources, but if a program requires it, allows shutdown of various background programs, like,, all but necessary.. Simple stuff.
A lot of people suffer learning curves just getting a computer, and then to have to suffer learning a new OS, is a stressful and hindering block that probably stops and slows sales of a “New Product”, when the old one seemed to work fine. So , make it able to do what ever, but make it able to revert to it’s comfort zone, and allow the user to explore new features at a pace, rather than force feed people “new”, give them “choice”..
Also, if you want to give it that extra kick, allow it to be an “EXCLUSIVE” point of entry into a new internet protocol, that is “child safe” that has no pornography, which would remove the need for “securty settings”… Maybe one exclusive to Business or corperate sites,, that can not be connected to by any other means, but by the New Windows.
There, that should make someone a paycheck.. But where’s mine?