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While both offer more affordable web hosting platforms for Web service, Linux and Windows are polar opposites on almost every other level. They look different, run differently, support different software, and cost money in different places…

1. I DONT want DRM or any DRM-related technologies. I want the PC to do what I tell it to do, not what MS tells it to do.

2. I DONT want compatibility problems with software in previous versions

3. I DONT want compatibility problems with hardware (Creative Sound Cards with Vista anyone? They had to develop Alchemy because of it)

4. I DONT want any tricks. I DONT want OpenGL hardware acceleration to be poorly implemented as in other versions of Windows, in order to favor Direct3D.

5. I DONT want a bloated OS that takes an eternity to load, even in a high-end gaming rig.

6. I DONT want the OS to practically FORCE the user to into buying a mid-range gaming machine JUST to install and run the OS’s basic features.

7. I DONT want 20,000 different versions of the same OS. That approach is not consumer friendly as it tends to confuse some people that may not be as versed in software-related areas. Release 1 (ONE) version of the software. A full-featured one.

8. I WANT a better disk defragmentation tool, and I want it to defrag my disk even if the OS *THINKS* that it should not be defragmented. Who the hell told Vista that to have, and even enforce, its own opinion anyways? Software with an attitude…now thats a joke…

9. I WANT MORE control of the OS given to the USER and NOT to the OS. It IS the USER’s PC after all.

10. I WANT a Stable, Robust, and Secure OS. I DONT want to loose my liberties in the process.

11. I WANT my Fair Use Rights to be upheld. Users DO have a LEGAL right to backup their software WITHOUT DRM-related intrusions and obstacles.

12. I DONT want a Bloated Kernel.

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My wife is a trained information scientiset and llibrarian. She tells me that in her undergraduate days one of her lecturers illustrated the sort of problems tht public library staff get with the Henry VIII question. IAparently the most common inquiry in public libraries is a teacher asking for books on history. What they are really looking for is a picture of Henry but they don’t like to ask the direct question; they think that if they hit on the right book on Tudor history they can soon find one. So it would make sense on a search engine that if you searched or a picture of Henry VIII you ought to come up with a link to a picture rather than one to text.

So how about it? Microsoft could ce3ertainly steal a march on Gogle, Yahoo and the others bu including picture search facilities as I have outlined above.

Also I would like all the features back from windows longhorn..the way it was supposed to be before they ran out of time!

Faster Startup: Only load the essentials needed to start windows raw, like in safe mode, and load the things that the user needs every time, but for things run rarely, run them on load of the program!

Give options to turn features off in the OS easily!

2. Fast – Only load when required (OLWR). Extra daemons and services shouldn’t be loaded at startup, waiting years for something to do.

3. Faster boot up – Don’t load everything on boot up – its taking far too long. Shutdown ain’t great either. The Mac OS X is very fast at both.

4. Secure – Make it bullet proof – well as best you can.

5. 64 bit – Anything else will divert resources – esp. regarding drivers. We need more memory not less.

6. Drivers – Signed drivers should be mandatory. Again, this will push resources into getting things done right. Many, hardware vendors leave the drivers as after thoughts – this must change.

7. Documents and settings – dump this and setup as /user/username/documents etc

8. A task bar that can span muliple monitors.

9. Modular OS – In the unix world each utility does only one thing but very well.

10. Bloatware – Keep this, but during install allow users to choose. Allow easy uninstall latter also. I don’t realy want to go back to the old days of not being able to click on a ubiquitous file and not to be able to atleast preveiw it.

11. Watch out Windows – Linux (I tried Ubuntu), seemed to do everything I wanted – and very well too. The only reason I haven’t abandoned Windows entirely is for games.

12. Standards compliance – Don’t go off into your own world like IE. Keep the standards – MS is no longer bigger than the game itself.

Thats enough to be getting on with. Good luck!