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posted by janrinok on Sunday March 02 2014, @10:30AM   Printer-friendly
from the the-weekly-borg dept.

CowboyTeal writes:

"Windows 8 is still being disputed as either the product of a genius or a nerdy sadist but that doesn't mean Windows 9 isn't in the works. That said, how would you guys improve Windows if you could change anything about it? Has windows 8 improved or degraded your overall experience of the Windows platform? If you're not a Windows user, what features would you like to see in Windows for possible assimilation?"

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 02 2014, @05:10PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 02 2014, @05:10PM (#9660)

    I can shut the tower's power off over night and just hit the power switch in the morning. It logs me in and reopens everything that was opened when I shut it down.

    1) Why not use hibernate?

    2) The tap to click "feature" is often controlled by the touchpad software.

  • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday March 03 2014, @04:31PM

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Monday March 03 2014, @04:31PM (#10104)

    2) The tap to click "feature" is often controlled by the touchpad software.

    That's another highly annoying thing about Windows. It's not consistent machine-to-machine, because hardware vendors load it up with a bunch of crapware tied to their hardware. Why should I need to use vendor-specific crapware to configure a touchpad, rather than using a configuration module built into the OS and accessible in Control Panel, which looks and works the same no matter what machine I'm on (assuming it has a touchpad)? On Linux, it's all the same; the userspace programs are part of the OS distro (KDE for instance has its own touchpad configuration module), and work using standardized interfaces with device drivers for devices from different vendors.

  • (Score: 1) by EvilJim on Wednesday March 05 2014, @12:40AM

    by EvilJim (2501) on Wednesday March 05 2014, @12:40AM (#11081) Journal

    1) because hibernate != reboot