Windows 7: Windows 8, a Repeat of Windows 7

While with Windows 7 Microsoft did not need a repeat of Windows Vista, the same is not valid for Windows 8 and its predecessor. Essentially, the Redmond company needs Windows 8, the next major iteration of Windows to fall as close as possible to the Windows 7 tree. Windows 8 needs to be a repeat of Windows 7, at least in terms of market success, although Vista’s successor is delivering a performance that will be very hard to beat. Still, Microsoft’s Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer recently revealed that he believes the software giant will manage to take it to the next level, during the Microsoft Financial Analyst Meeting, at the end of July 2010.

One product “I think is most important -- it is the most important -- from a financial perspective, and that's Windows. You know, this was an amazing, amazing year. In the sense that Windows is our flagship product, Windows and Windows' success is a tide that floats all boats, so to speak. Suffice to say, I didn't love everything about where we were in the market, say, two years ago. And yet today we launched Windows 7. It got exceptionally well-reviewed. We've got 94 percent customer satisfaction on the product, which is stunning. Sales of Windows 7 PCs have skyrocketed. We built the team that I think has a very strong capability now to repeat -- not easy -- but to repeat the kind of great work that delivered Windows 7 itself, which I think as an investor is an important capability for you to think about,” Ballmer said. (emphasis added)

I have one option on my wish list, I need to see some advanced copy/paste features.
It’s VERY annoying when it skips the entire copy process because one locked file or so.
What I want it to do is, copy everything it can and then display a list of the problematic files with an action option beside EACH on of them..like retry, skip, cancel and it should also give me an option to save a log file of the copying process to send it to a user in case you are backing up data for someone and require his confirmation that backup is complete….I WISH THIS WILL BE TRUE in this coming version.
And I also wish to see a GUI for winpe to ease the backup process of a crashed HD.

You mean in the same way that some software allows you to choose either a minimal or typical installation in which case the preset options are made for you, or a customized installation in which you can choose what features to install? I can see your point here, but an OS is a very different animal to an application. Many functions and features are integrated together, and it is not always possible to separate them. Personally, I would rather have them installed and be available for potential use (even if I don't end up using them) than have to reinstall the whole OS (and applications) just to gain a feature/function that I thought I wouldn't need. With today's HDDs, there is sufficient capacity available to make lack of space a virtual non-argument against a full install.

Just my take.