Keith Line

I’ve been using windows since version 3.0, maybe even earlier if I think hard enough. I’ve lived through at least 7 major upgrades and have installed the OS thousands of times in a former life as a technologist. My current operating system is Vista. Vista is, in my opinion, ridiculous.

I hope that Windows 7 goes leaps and bounds above it’s hype. I hope that for once, Microsoft actually listens to what their users want. If Windows 7 does not do the job, my time with Microsoft will end.

I want to add the following to my list of wants to Windows 7:

1. I want my task icons to not disappear randomly. My volume control has gone off and on for almost every version of Windows
2. My OS should never crash. Ever. We need to stop living with crashes.
3. Windows needs to start fast - and not just do so for a week. I should be able to install hundreds of programs and it should still work just fine.
4. Folder views should not change randomly.
5. The Windows explorer menus need to stay the way I want them.
6. I shouldn’t have to be a rocket scientist nor answer a million questions to hook two computers together.
7. Windows should repair itself if there is a virus or malware installed.
8. My program associations need to stay the way I want them. Microsoft products should stop taking over.
9. Face it, other Internet browsers exist. Make every appropriate feature of Windows work with other browsers.
10. Setting up a printer should be so easy that a kindergartner could do it.
11. Things should just make sense. If my 60+ year old father can’t figure out the basics of the operating system, then there is something wrong.

There are countless other things that need fixing. If Microsoft does not fundamentally shift the way Windows works (by making it truly functional), I will buy a Mac.

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