Give me a command window with capabilities similar to PuTTY and a real shell to work in with useful commands (hint: everything Unix has.)
PowerShell, which has remoting in 2.0. Inlcuded with Windows 7.
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Give me a command window with capabilities similar to PuTTY and a real shell to work in with useful commands (hint: everything Unix has.)
So it wasn't always exactly 5 years, but the point is it used to be major releases would be at least that long until Vista bombed, but now that Microsoft fixed that so quickly with the stable and successful Windows 7, it seems kinda premature that they ready another replacement so soon, especially since we're all still using NTFS which is nearing 20 years old.
What Do You Want from Windows 8 ?
Less limitations for repair/upgrade installs. Should be able to repair/upgrade from boot CD. Should be able to repair install to/from any service pack level. (Basically do what you could do with XP)
Ability to perform SFC from bootable OS media.
Ability to manually extract and restore registries from restore points from recovery console (like you could in XP.)
Some sort of safe mode-like alternate mini-OS that can be booted into to perform repairs, virus scans, etc that doesn't rely on any of the system files or registry from the full OS. Maybe like the recovery console, but with a GUI.
windows 8?
i don't give a shit about it.
gonna be using win7 for the next 9 years, just as i did with xp
Windows 8 should include a dialog shown to any user who disables more than three services or reverts more than one aspect of the OS to "classic mode:"
"You appear to be tuning your OS for maximum performance. Please be aware that we have already done this, as we wrote the damn thing, and we know what constitutes maximum performance. The features you are disabling are what make this OS great; you should really learn how to use them to your benefit. Even if you don't use them, leaving them on has no impact on performance, and they will be there in case your needs ever change in the future.
Nevertheless, as a courtesy we have provided you with the ability to disable these features. By continuing, you forfeit your right to complain about the speed, stability, and/or usability of your OS, all of which your actions may negatively impact. You also may not complain about Microsoft's inability to achieve these goals without the use of "bloat" and "resources." We cannot fix problems if you disable our fixes.
Thank you for purchasing Windows 8 - but seriously, you may as well have just stuck with XP."
Then, the product won't get negative reviews from people who buy it, turn everything off, then complain that their OS can't do anything.
[*]An easy way to aggregate disks like in WHS and assign them to system, data, backup, archive purpose. I don't want a single user real file such as saved games, favorites, program data to be stored on my system partition. Only garbage files such as cached browser pictures, etc.
Pretty severe case of fanboyism you've got there.Windows 8 should include a dialog shown to any user who disables more than three services or reverts more than one aspect of the OS to "classic mode:"
"You appear to be tuning your OS for maximum performance. Please be aware that we have already done this, as we wrote the damn thing, and we know what constitutes maximum performance. The features you are disabling are what make this OS great; you should really learn how to use them to your benefit. Even if you don't use them, leaving them on has no impact on performance, and they will be there in case your needs ever change in the future.
Nevertheless, as a courtesy we have provided you with the ability to disable these features. By continuing, you forfeit your right to complain about the speed, stability, and/or usability of your OS, all of which your actions may negatively impact. You also may not complain about Microsoft's inability to achieve these goals without the use of "bloat" and "resources." We cannot fix problems if you disable our fixes.
Thank you for purchasing Windows 8 - but seriously, you may as well have just stuck with XP."
Then, the product won't get negative reviews from people who buy it, turn everything off, then complain that their OS can't do anything.
Pretty severe case of fanboyism you've got there.
I'll take 3 copies please .1) Prints money.
2) Grants me three wishes.
3) Builds an island, transforms into a jet and flies me there.
4) Indestructible
1) Prints money.
2) Grants me three wishes.
3) Builds an island, transforms into a jet and flies me there.
4) Indestructible
No more libraries would be nice...
WinFS would be nice. Finally.
-I want it to be 64bit exclusive.
-I want an overhauled Windows Media Center. Top to Bottom.
-Multiple desktops
-Start bar that spans across multiple monitors
Yeah, I don't see what the issue is here. I have all kinds of stuff running on my sig rig, Sql Server, IIS, Apache, etc. and even record TV while gaming, nothin' slows down. Even lesser machines can run all this stuff with enough memory no sweat while gaming.
- sell it to me via a write-protected USB key
- native 7z and pdf
No Edit FTL. Zune as the default media player. If they're pushing Zune for WinPho7, Xbox and Win 7 there's no reason not to ditch WMP and focus on making Zune better than it already is.
Let's see:
- Immediate application of environment variables. No, I don't want to restart my computer or kill all instances of cmd.exe and explorer.exe just to apply an env var. This has been a problem forever.
- I never want to see "you must restart your computer for your changes to take effect".
- ext2, 3, 4 support. Yes, really.
- A way to get rid of more annoying wastes of screen real-estate, like that "organize" bar in Explorer.
- Get rid of the horrible new bootloader and fire the morons who designed it.
- Forget the registry. Apart from being exploitable and impossible to edit in its raw state, traversing large data structures one-after-the-other is slow in comparison to parsing a little configuration file.
- A package manager, perhaps?
- A real collection of shell tools (and not absurd like Powershell).
- Customizability, like a method of skinning, or an actual way to replace the window manager that isn't an error-prone hack.
- Don't disable compositing if I don't want to use that Aero shitheap
- A more sane way to change file ownership and permissions.
- Multiple desktops, yeah?
- Don't shit yourself when you discover another OS is installed elsewhere. Thanks.
and plenty more!
We'll never see the day, though...
I'll take the one with the bigger GEEBEES
Green Screen of Death instead of blue