What would you change in Windows?
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Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversIf you were hired by Microsoft to make the Windows experience less annoying, what would be on your to-do list?
Mark Hamburg, the Adobe Photoshop/LightRoom guru recently hired by Microsoft, is tasked with figuring out how to improve the way Microsoft’s operating system works.
Hamburg didn’t recently join Microsoft to work on SmartFlow, Microsoft’s alleged competitor to LightRoom, as I guessed yesterday. Instead, he’s working on future OS interface concepts, according to a posting on the ProPhotoHome blog that a reader forwarded to me. According to the post:
“Mark was invited by David Vaskevitch to come lead a team working on the future of OS User Experience at Microsoft.
“This is the way Mark phrased it:
“Now, given that I find the current Windows experience really annoying and yet I keep having to deal with it, this opportunity was a little too interesting to turn down. I can’t imagine doing serious imaging anywhere other than Adobe, but, I needed to do something other than imaging for a while.”
This begs the question, what, exactly, is Vaskevitch working on? Vaskevitch is a Senior Vice President and Chief Technical Officer at Microsoft, who has been working with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates “to develop a focused and unified strategy and architecture for future Microsoft platforms.” Vaskevitch is also quite the digital-photography buff.
Given Vaskevitch’s charter is to focus on the future, it’s not a complete given that Hamburg will be focused on improving Windows. Windows is Microsoft’s one and only operating system today. (Windows Mobile, based on Windows CE, isn’t technically “Windows,” but for all intents and purposes, it is still is part of the Windows family.)
However, there has been scuttlebutt around rumored Microsoft efforts to build a new operating system that isn’t Windows at its core. And is Windows Live or virtualized Windows still “Windows”? Maybe, maybe not.
“User experience” doesn’t translate exactly to “user interface.” It’s also about the applications which customers use to achieve a task. But it’s more UI than anything else.
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Comments(18)
first thing i'd do is hang steve ballmer upside down from the nearest lamp post by his
toe nails and pummel him to death with organic carrots. then get someone in who has a
clue.
what he said!
also, about this "phone home", wga, 25 digit key number every time
you do a clean install & get accused of stealing crap! if i ran my business like that, i
would have no business!!!
if you were put in steve balmer's shoes today and had to contend with the teething
problems that come with any company; and be under pressure to come out with not just an
operating system every other year but to continually patch older versions and develop a
host of other applications in conjuntion with an os; you'd buckle like a pack of cards on
your first day.
try putting yourself in peoples shoes and then see how you
would do. the very fact that microsoft is hiring such people shows that they are genuinely
interested in improving the experience of their end users.
at the same time,
your role could potentially be applauded, as it is people like you who make microsoft just
that much more determined to come up with technological firsts.
microsoft has never come up with technological firsts and steve ballmer is being paid
vasts amounts of money not to buckle like a pack of cards.
joe you are right, i
could not do the job mr. ballmer is not doing anywhere near as good as him, that's why
i'll never be rich.
eliminate: backdoors, anti-consumer/anti-piracy/anti-privacy/wga/drm/information
collection/etc, windows-live, the registry.
add: themes support by default with
creation tools and support and encourage it, as well as customizing icons, toolbars etc.
make the firewall more advanced and easier to block outgoing connections, beef up
encryption and file /disk security (no backdoors).
1. i would remove all drm from windows. i would tell hollywood to keep their drm on
their disks, not windows.
2. i would remove wga. it makes micrsoft look greedy.
3. i would fire steve ballmer.
4. i would opt for one single version
of windows.
5. i would cap windows at no more than $49.00 per copy.
this last one hit it on the head. ms could dump all its stupid activation and such if it
had just one windows. made it the best it could. sold it for $50.00. everyone would say
sure, well worth the price. who would pirate when it was that cheap. heck, upcharge for
those who want phone support. tons would pay for that. ms just does not get it. much like
gw bush, can not get why eveyone does not love them. everyone on the outside get's it. it
is very simple!
why would microsoft hire someone who publicly states the windows experience is really
annoying. are they admitting they made a mistake trying to force vista on everyone.
although there are lots of comparisons of xp and vista on the internet, all of the aticles
are written by experts and computer geeks. the truth is that most companies and
"average" users are quite happy with xp and see no value in changing to vista. in fact
nearly everyone i have talked to prefers xp over vista. most companies including my own
have programs they need that don't even run on vista. microsoft has flexed its muscle
with computer distributors by forcing them to stop installing xp on their systems and just
maybe they are starting to feel the backlash. it is interesting that when vista first came
out ms had all sorts of tv commercials but they soon ended. the mac vs pc commercials are
still going strong. although the mac commercials are humerous they do have a lot of truth
to them. something must be working for mac as ms has now come out with a version of office
for macs. i beleive that ms is trying to cash in on a growing shift to the mac os. it will
be interesting to see how the ms operating system fairs in the marketplace when they
finally kill support for xp. my prediction is that in about 5 years the mac operating
sytem will be the preferred system by business and vista or whatever ms finally comes up
with will be for average consumers. there is already talk of a new ms operating system
and business cannot afford to keep changing at the command of ms
and everyone happy
wga is not a tool. it is a pest. i would get rid of any activation schemes too. there
is nothing worse than having to show a 70 year old woman how to activate a copy of windows
with a key code let alone show her how to use a computer. likewise, only 2 versions of
windows please!!!! windows is not baskin robbins. it is only confusion and
frustration for the consumers and users.
1. i'd shrink the os down to a few megs, so it could be installed off of floppies.
2. make it look like mac os 7
live live os 7!
1.i would take out all activation stuff
2.i would make it have the 3d windows like
in the previews of windows vista
3.and give it all the programs
4.make all
windows computers have a 1000tb(tara bite)
and last but not leased make it cost $0.01
oh ya and give it dx1000!
windows 3.11 all the way.... lol
1. remove the uac messeages
2. shrink down vista services(come on,they waste ram :d)
3. somehow shrink vista so it needs 256 ram as minimum :d
4. that way i can use vista on my crappy old computer.
what kills vista is the gui speed.
but your stealing money out peoples pockets and trying to make it rite. duh. i don't
care how much he puts up with,it's life and when it comes to our money we get kind of
bent out of shape too.
1. change the install so that it installs in a basic (classic) mode only then the user
can add features and eye candy as they go.
2. tidy up the whole layout, simplify
it... at the moment they are all over the place and seem to get worse with every new
release.. eg..
a hardware settings/driver/configuration area,
a windows
software area.
automatically show explorer in basic mode with file extensions and
showing system files.
nothing is to be configured to automatically make contact or
update over the net.. the user then can decide themselves what is done and when.
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