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Jetli Jerry wrote: Vista not used yet
In my case: Never seen Vista, except some screenshots 
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1 = horrible, 5 = fantastic.
Aero and the new Desktop Window Manager: Avg = 5.60
The improvements to Explorer and the Shell: Avg = 5.40
That is really really really fantastic. 
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Duan Yu wrote: That is really really really fantastic.
Shog... stop playing around!!! 
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Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau.
Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Preview pane and preview handlers are my current favorite
Omit Needless Words - Strunk, William, Jr.
Vista? Photoshop Preview Handler here
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Desktop switching would be handy (i.e. enable it as an advanced feature). So you would be able to have separate apps open on each desktop - e.g. work on different projects without cluttering up the taskbar. There's a powertoy for this on XP, not sure about Vista 
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.
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i would like more speed, less bulk, more compatibility and not less, same price, internet explorer as a fully independent app, and the list could go on for a week or so
vista, imo, is one of the worst releases of windows, and i hope they realize it and dont do it ever again
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1. WinFS. This was always my #1 wish and I was very disappointed when it didn't make RTM
2. A clean, consistent interface. Aero is truly appalling and the work they did to make desktop apps look like web apps is ridiculous. Web app interfaces are cool because they do so much with so little. Desktop interfaces have so much freedom to be so much better. Make IE better so that webapps work like desktop apps. Don't try and make my desktop Web 2.0.
Stop trying to be clever and start actually being clever with UI design.
3. Simplified menus. That does not mean "bury choices under Yet Another Layer of Dialogs". That means: expose options more clearly. Get rid of all the fluff and present a single, common set of tabbed pages where I can configure how Windows works
4. No UAC.
5. The XP start menu. I have no idea what sort of strange idea it was to make the start menu cumbersome and klunky.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: 3. Simplified menus. That does not mean "bury choices under Yet Another Layer of Dialogs". That means: expose options more clearly. Get rid of all the fluff and present a single, common set of tabbed pages where I can configure how Windows works
In 1998, i was using Star Office on Gnome. Both used the brilliantly simple technique of bringing up all properties relevant to whatever you had selected when you asked for it. For instance: selecting properties for the desktop let you change everything from wallpaper to how windows behaved when you clicked on them. Selecting properties for a paragraph let you change everything from the font, to indentation, to borders and background shading...
I use this example because MS seems to like to "try out" new UI concepts in Office prior to bringing them into Windows. If Office 2007 is any indication, future Windows UIs will have even more disparate dialogs, grouped by the rather nebulous concept of "task", and triggered by an ever-growing army of "advanced..." links.
So, uh, yeah. Time to start writing your own Fileman... 
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It appears that everybody is under the impression that I approve of the documentation. You probably also blame Ken Burns for supporting slavery.
--Raymond Chen on MSDN
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