What's the Single Biggest Issue in Windows?
Tuesday November 11, 2008
With Windows 7, Microsoft's next operating system, on its way, what do you think is the single biggest problem it needs to address?
People are always complaining about one thing or another with Windows - hardware compatibility, boot up time, general failures, etc. What "big fix" could Microsoft implement in Windows 7 that would make your day?
What improvement would have you standing in line at Best Buy at midnight on release day? (OK, maybe nothing would do that - but you get the idea).
People are always complaining about one thing or another with Windows - hardware compatibility, boot up time, general failures, etc. What "big fix" could Microsoft implement in Windows 7 that would make your day?
What improvement would have you standing in line at Best Buy at midnight on release day? (OK, maybe nothing would do that - but you get the idea).
Comments
If Windows 7 could promise really fast start and shutdown times and even just slightly better error recovery I’d be happy. I’m not that unhappy with Vista really.
I have only just upgraded to Vesta….which was expensive…now a new upgrade? Vesta works okay for me with less problems that their pervious OS, but it is not much better that XP considering the cost. I think I will skip this one.
Definitely start up timing could be improved, security is always an issue but my biggest wind-up over the past two years has been getting flash player to install and run correctly - anyone else had a similar problem?
I’m keeping XP Pro until it’s stone-cold dead. I had Vista for a week and wiped it. If 7 is as clunky and difficult to navigate as Vista, it won’t last long. After debacles like Windows ME and Vista, I have a wait and see attitude. Microsoft seems to have a way of mucking things up instead of making them simple to use.
The main problem of Vista is that tehre is not any really new feature. We have an enhancement for Windows who gives Windows the new feature who is not inside vista … but MS is too stupid to ask us.
Need to figure out how to prevent LockUps!!!
A more user friendly registry error recovery system would be a good thing. Today the issues associated with individual pc upgrades needed to support Vista can be overcome, I see this as a major concern for big business. Then comes the change of the GUI, it would be nice to see an underling change in the Windows OS for the better and in most cases it has been. It appears to me though, that a change in the GUI always puts the end user back into a new learning curve. If it’s not broken don’t fix it, blah blah blah.
As a creature of habit I will stay with XP and learn to navigate Vista due to support concerns.
Windows should go back to basics learn a thing or two from Unix and Linux make its product free or cheaper.Believe me this will make it user friendly and we will be able to forgive windows mistakes.To me windows will always come with problems because Microsoft is concern with greed and not development. By this time Microsoft should have found out that its consumers are not stupid or idiotic anymore we have come a long way from Msdos and Windows 3.1
Fast startup and shutdown and really snappy response on every mouse click.
Who wants a really nice looking SLOW operating system ……just reminds you of dial up internet…..go forward…not back.
I would buy it if reviews tell me it is absolutely seamless. I don’t want to know it’s there. I don’t want to see it. I don’t want to smell it. I don’t want messages from it. I don’t want to wait while it updates or starts or stops or pauses or whatever. I want it to work totally behind the scenes and never cause me a problem. New features? Forget them! New toys? No! Make it smaller, super-fast, and totally transparent.
I was recruited by Microsoft to be a beta tester for Vista. I don’t have a second system to use as a “crash box” so I declined. Microsoft has said it will support XP until 2014, so will I!
What would make me go with Windows 7? Get rid of the Vista Nanny. When people screw up and do stupid things to their computer, it’s job security for tech support agents!
I’m with the XP die-hards ….. for innumerable reasons, Vista just doesn’t do it for me. Windows 7 is going to have to be something really ’special’ to make-up for Vista. Conclusion: I’ll stick with XP until change is totally unavoidable.
Even though I liked Vista, there were issues with other companies updating their drivers to run in Vista. This is Microsoft at it finest. Any new OS should run with whatever is all ready out there. It is too costly to buy a new OS to find out that you have to spend time, not just looking for special driver, but for them to be made. This doesn’t work in the real world, so I have moved back to XP.
New features - Quite changing the GUI. If need be, do it slowly. End users flip out and IT have to take Meds or go postal. Virus recovery/preventive, now there is a place to put some brain power/money. A system should be working for you, not standing in your way. Don’t get fancier, get better!
Linux Rules
If the IT industry improves Linux driver support, Windows will no longer be the only real choice for PC’s. Linux Knoppix is free, boots from a CD or Hdd, is very secure, and has all (or 95%) of features found on Vista.
I think Kevin nailed it when he said “Don’t get fancier, get better!”