I won't make jokes on Microsoft OSs - making OS is a difficult job, and I'm sure we won't miss my contribution :)
However, I REALLY wish Windows would fix the following 3 things: 1. Focus stealers: I'm just sick and tired (juvenile enough?) of things starting up, usurping focus as though they were the most important thing on my machine, again and again and again. Just give me a setting whereby if anything needs my focus, it gets in line!!! And let me do what I wish to do right now. 2. Pop those balloons: The incessant ballooning is out of control. I need an EASY way to turn them off or control their behavior. For example, I don't need to know everytime a server mapping becomes un/available or that I must choose another network everytime my wireless goes missing. Yes they are important, but please, let me choose when/how to be informed. 3. Folder search UI: I can't believe how every time Microsoft touches the folder search UI, it only can make it worse. It used to be straight-up fields in windows NT. By XP, we have this bloated default UI that wants to ask me all these questions. Thinking about the mousework to navigate that is amazing - click 'when was it modified?', scroll down, select a radio button, mess with some drop-downs, click 'other search options'.... oh wait, did that actually show me anything more or just bump me up to the top? I could go on for a while. And quite recently there was a Windows update that changed the search UI further, without warning! I had to google around to get info on modifying registry to turn it off! Just give me a switch to go between all this hand-holding and a fields-only UI that simply displays relevant fields. And please, no animated animals (or clips). That's another thing to tweak when you first use search. -Peyush < Many of us use Windows everyday and I'm sure you've noticed things, you would be done differently or something you really miss there... What would you add? What would you change?> ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
