10 Features Longhorn Needs

Wednesday, Apr. 6 2005 | Author: Scrivs

winCustomize has an article about the features that Longhorn needs to make the next Windows something special. The list includes:

New display system.
Updated searching.
Smoother multitasking.
More componentized.
Stop bloating with needless bundling.
Make networking better.
Better use of memory.
Fix Internet Explorer
Fix your third party license
Fix security

I don’t know, all of these seem like basic features and are not really features at all. I do like having scaleable dpi with resolution though. Of course most of this stuff Microsoft is kind of stuck with and that’s one of the reasons that Longhorn is taking so long because they are trying to overhaul the mess. No envy in that job.

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8 Responses for "10 Features Longhorn Needs"

chet

April 6th, 2005 at 4:53 pm
1

And get RID of the registry!
Griffith

April 6th, 2005 at 4:59 pm
2

Get rid of the registry? Sorry but there’s no chance on that happening.

In the future Microsoft wants people to pay-per-year to use their OSs.
Scrivs

April 6th, 2005 at 5:01 pm
3

I would be happy with having the same interface across all applications. As it stands now you are learning 100 new ways to do the same one thing everytime you pick a new app.
Josh`

April 6th, 2005 at 7:22 pm
4

Meh.. I’m tired of Microsoft’s stupidness about stuff now-a-days. I’m just about ready to switch to Linux and call it good. Microsoft has just made me mad one too many times lol. Although, I do agree with everything on that list.
Ryan Irelan

April 6th, 2005 at 7:52 pm
5

11. Ship.

It’s no good if you don’t ship it.
Scrivs

April 6th, 2005 at 8:15 pm
6

Yep, Ryan nailed it. Game over.
Norgus

April 6th, 2005 at 8:16 pm
7

No Ryan, you are highly wrong. Ship should not be a MUST DO for microsoft UNTIL they fix things like internet explorer. By fix I mostly mean render pages in a more standard way and stop inventing proprietary tags etc, and have good solid CSS support.
That is a dream though, so very unlikely its saddening.

It wouldn’t hurt to accept some open formats, or at least allow competitors and open source projects to write microsoft file formats.

As for the graphical system, I’m more than happy for my graphics card not to be wasting time on rendering a clunky desktop.
Matt H.

April 7th, 2005 at 2:43 pm
8

Windows!