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If you were able to have a private meeting with Bill Gates and able to request ONE thing that had to be expressed in a single 25 word statement to be added/changed/fixed for Longhorn, what would it be?

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Reply #29 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Replace the registry with something more user and application friendly so installing/uninstalling applications doesn't bloat the OS over time.
Reply #31 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I think this one would benefit Stardock on two fronts...

"Get rid of GDI altogether and implement a simple 3D windowing subsystem API and framework."

To elaborate the above suggestion, make drawing desktops accelerated using direct 3D hardware calls similar and akin to what OS X does in their desktop. Copying ideas? Yes. But at least we won't be limited in what software developers can do when decorating a desktop and customizing windowing behavior.

Aero!
Reply #32 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I just want to reimbursed for Windows ME. It is probably the worst experience of my life.
Reply #33 from WinCustomize Forums Top
"Can I please open a folder full of jpg's on thumbnail view, and not have explorer crash, Mr Gates?"
Reply #34 from WinCustomize Forums Top
"Could we please have an OS that is modular. Just create a REALLY good OS and leave the added BLOATWARE and useless utilities up to the user to choose. I'd like to choose my own media player, browser, CD burning app, etc."
Reply #35 from WinCustomize Forums Top
All Windows UI styles since 3.0 and shadows under windows and the ability to set something to be on the clipboard at log on.
Reply #36 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Please, Mister Gates...donate all proceeds of your Longhorn sales to negate World Poverty.

The other 11 words are....irrelevant....

Reply #37 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Make all icons, cursors, pretty much the entire gui able to be customized and edited by default as normal as you would a wallpaper. And give paint more than 16 colors.
Reply #38 from JoeUser Forums Top
Provide a control panel that lets me set and edit many of the hidden system settings (i.e where do programs try to default install, where my settings and temp files get put.)

Yes, I know this can be done with TweakUI, but I would rather it be an integrated part of the system.
Reply #39 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Mr. Gates,

why do you sell new OS without let old working?
Reply #40 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Make It Work

if it doesn't then
Add a money back offer if it doesn't work perfectly.


I personally think if this option is accepted then Microsoft will go bunkrupt ..
Reply #42 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Mr. Gates, you make the most underestimated 10th best HARDWARE worldwide nobody really
uses professionally, your almost free german telephone support is OUTSTANDING, your
free world clock is cool, powertoys are free and AWESOME, sad you dont even upload
the old ones which are still legally available elsewhere and cool though, many more
free boot utilities are ESSENTIAL and not used by whiners although they are free,
AND THANKS ALL OVER for supporting, Stardock and 3 subcompanies of theirs.

Your longhorn and IE 7.0 is too late, dont worry, Firefox sucks and came too late as
well, better browser already existed free for a long time, still SP 2 did add things
to IE 6.0 no other browser have, yet most browsers are better than firefox and yours

And, when you get around to it, go jump in the lake for trying to control peoples
most intimate core of their private life even worse than SP2s BS elements already are
doing,

IN LONGHORN, where you also ruined XPs functionality of its frame, even if it looks nicer,
were better at customizing that anyway, other OSes were so much better for customizing
so much before LONGHORN and WINDOW 3.11!, that you missed that train for good. Try to
catch up with russian and german animated keyboards and additional second keyboard
flashing at night with 100 programmable keys for you favorites only and a PRIMARY subhub
for hooking up a 3d keyboard even to a laptop, if your OUTSTANDING hardware excepting mice
is not to be dated soon!
and having items in your license read.me violating german laws plus shady
things like you can not go back to old versions youve paid for legally even if you
have also paid for the new version and dislike it. Keep on loosing law suites run by
24 European countries, you still get richer than you deserve to be, although you do
deserve to be rich. You do not deserve to be able to make other beginners so poor and
so prosecuted, and go play with the blender for making your office suite so overpriced
you luckily helped other people instead by doing that.
Reply #43 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Require all Windows logo apps to support moving all settings to another installation.
Reply #44 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hey, Citizen SATYROBE, the topic was to express a single 25 word statement, not a Windows version of War and Peace.

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Reply #45 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hey, Citizen SATYROBE, the topic was to express a single 25 word statement, not a Windows version of War and Peace.


Oops! You are right. Now I do not seem to be able to cut it down anymore. Also should
thank microsoft for enabling me to whine at all. Deleting of that blogs also down and might cause
dead links, probably a safety measure that is good.
Reply #46 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Rewrite explorer.exe. The new shell should utilize only SVG graphics, and be 3rd-party highly-configurable.
Reply #47 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Or at least make Explorer more stable. And from reading interviews, the do realize that's a weakness and are addressing it.

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Reply #48 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Mr. Gates, please make multitasking finer-grained and more responsive. There is NO JUSTIFICATION for my having a 3 GHZ computer, and I can't open notepad quickly if the machine is busy with other work. You know, like BeOS? (I borrowed a few words from other more brief requests.)