The perfect operating system....

I agree with much of the first post. The perfect OS would allow me to choose everything I wanted, and nothing I didn't. Pretty simple.

zzz2496 said:

Well, that's my version of a "perfect" OS...

zzz2496

Don't tell me. You work in sales for Linux?

Windows 7 is the best windows out there...but it's still windows, unfortunately. Here are the things for Windows 8 that would make it closer to a perfect OS for me:

OK, Vista was awful at this, Windows 7 improved, but there's still Win7 Home Starter (which barely deserves to be called an OS), Win7 Home Basic, Win7 Home Premium, and Win7 Ultimate/Professional. Enough versions....cut out the basics and give 'developing markets' the full deal. And the people who buy Ultimate (Tech geeks like me) know enough about computers, so you can give them that 'modular' system that you guys were talking about earlier. Seriously, cut Windows 8 down to one version, which would be like today's Home Premium. Add the modular system for advanced upgrades that normally would have come in Ultimate, and that's it. A user can have Windows 8, instead of a specific version. Maybe his Windows 8 will have a little bit more extra than mine...but it still would be Windows 8.

Totally redo all the settings in Windows 8...a unified control panel. Do you know how many Settings there are in Win7? And scattered all over the place too. A unified control panel where I can do it all in one place.

A new explorer. The breadcrumbs trail and drop down side menu are great, but wow us in Windows 8 with a completely new explorer...seriously, it needs to get better. Throw in a better search, more like Mac's spotlight (though Win7 is the best windows search I've used yet) as a small bonus.

Rewrite the core. Make security an integral part of the system. Don't give us security updates every week, instead give us an OS that's already inherently secure out of the box....i.e. don't make me install Avast! or AVG....that would be nice.

And on the subject of rewriting, Win7 did a fairly decent job removing legacy UI components, but a lot are left. Win8 needs to have NONE of those old buttons and animations, icons, whatever.

Give us ridiculously easy Bluetooth and network transfer stuff. I mean, it took me twenty minutes to send a Bluetooth file from my brother's computer to mine when I could have done it in two minutes with a pen drive.

Allow folders in the superbar...just a wishful thinking here. Jumplists are great but not for folders. Folders in the superbar and maybe even the stacks feature similar to mac.

Windows 7 came a long way from XP which is what I used before, but the above would make it my dream OS. And give us a new name...Vista was probably the most creative name used yet because you see a Vista through windows, but Windows 7 strikes me as a dumb name. So give us another good name like Vista had.

Those are my thoughts...what do you think about them?
Uriah

CommonTater said:

Lordbob75 said:

Ok then. Just because you have a firewall does not mean you cannot be hacked.

Actually it does... The whole concept of a firewall is that nobody gets by it from the WAN side ... You can't connect to a machine you can't see...

First off, you can still see the router that the firewall is on.
Second, firewalls can be by-passed.

CommonTater said:

Now, what about stability updates? User interface updates? Service Packs?
Just because your system works now, does not mean it will in a week. Something you install (say a new program) can crash the computer. MS may have known about that and released a patch to cover it, which you didn't install.

See my point?

Actually... baring hardware failures... if my system works properly now, it will still work properly in 1500 years... unless I change something. You see the goal is to get the Operating System and various softwares stable enough that I don't have to think about the computer... I want to concentrate on writing code, paying bills, chatting with people, etc... I absolutely do not want to spend my time messing with OS screwups and updates gone bad... I want to USE the computer, not FIX it.

And If I did install a new program or an update to a program that crashed my system... it would last about 3 secongs longer than it takes to uninstall it.[/QUOTE]
Or unless something you did with your "stable" software messed it up through a bug in the OS or software code.

~Lordbob

MadMaxData said:

Lordbob75 said:

Ok then. Just because you have a firewall does not mean you cannot be hacked.

If it's configured properly it does.

Actually, a firewall can be by-passed. Period.
There will always be a way in.

I am not saying it is a plausible way, just saying it is possible.

MadMaxData said:

Lordbob75 said:

If you have a computer, eventually someone will give it a shot (not necessarily successfully).

Seriously? That sounds a bit like paranoia to me Bro. I ran XP-Pro on my test machine for over a year without a applying a single update, and didn't get a single infection [not counting tracking cookies]. No anti-virus software installed either.

I did not say infected. I said someone will eventually test your computer, even if they probably fail.
I unfortunately can find no information to back this up, but I do recall reading something about it before...

~Lordbob

MadMaxData said:

I agree with much of the first post. The perfect OS would allow me to choose everything I wanted, and nothing I didn't. Pretty simple.

zzz2496 said:

Well, that's my version of a "perfect" OS...

zzz2496

Don't tell me. You work in sales for Linux?

No, I don't sell Linux for living... But I do get money from setting up servers running Linux... And for now, Linux made my whole computing experience a whole lot better (in server world). That's it :)

zzz2496

Lordbob75, unless you know what/how Firewalls work, please don't say anything like "Second, firewalls can be by-passed.". There are MANY Different types of firewalls. Microsoft gave you the basic form of firewall. If you use an enterprise grade firewall and make it "super safe", as in nothing from "Internet" can go in, and everything that wants to go out are always checked, there is virtually NO WAY you can "bypass" it... Most of enterprise grade firewalls can even shutdown the connection if "something happens", which is not great for hackers... Some of them even have Deep Packet Inspection module. It could actually see what's coming and going... Unless you know what you're talking about, don't say a foolish things about firewall... Please.

zzz2496

P.s: Some types of Firewall: NAT/PAT/Stateful. Maybe I'll make a guide about it... If you combine it with an IDS/IPS system, it'll take the basic NAT/PAT/Stateful firewall to a whole different level...