True, I was refering mostly to the Start-Menu-Folder here.

I prefer the way as Ubuntu makes it:

• Folders that are refering to what the app is for (office, multimedia, etc.)
• Repositories that give a list of good software.
  

The implementation is a problem because there is a lack of standards. There should be more standard for the interfaces like the ones for mutlimedia-codecs. A properly coded codec can get used from every properly implemented player.

So you can install a bulk of codecs you want to use and some players. Even you are using different codecs you keep the choise which player you prefer. I think this principle should apply to all kind of software.

The basic use of a computer has not changed since the Apple Lisa. It is time for a new approach. I even don't think that 3D Interfaces are so different. As impressive they are, they are mostly nice to look at.

Also Multitouch interfaces are hyped now. I've already tested the huge Multi Touch Console and the iPhone (thanks to 72dpiarmy) and got very impressed, but there is still a lack of good use cases. Most use cases can be done equaly good with a normal touchscreen. There is more potential in this interface type. Imagine a good interface that is touchable, but with two (or even more) hands at once (if you are looking the video, imagine using the 2nd hand for getting the window from the back in front or switch the music played from the player in the background).

Also, semantic technologies have the most potential to completly change the way we think about using a computer. I think this is most reasonable after reading "Chapter 2: Design Philosophy" of Haystack's User Interface Framework: Tutorial and Reference.

This post was last modified: 09-23-2007 06:48 AM by MovGP0.

i want to see efficiency. remove all of the bloatware that was been gathering dust in the deepest darkest corners of the win 3.1 and 95 days. Do like OS X and clear out everything that is outdated. Linux breaks things every time it does a kernel upgrade in order to keep it efficient and lean, the least microsoft can do is cut dead code every decade or two...

I think that it good about cleaning everything out. They have apparently done that with WinMin Removing the bloatware is good, but it's difficult for them to do it, as it's the computer mfg. that preloads it, such as Gateway and Dell. I think they only way that they could do it is if they made their own computers.

Yeah, Windows 7 must be clean every bloated that came since Windows NT 3 or earlier...yet MS says that they started from scratch and the new kind of kernel has been made...WinMin
I think Windows 7 will really include WinFS that it was pulled out in Longhorn, It looks like this will be revolutionary in file systems...hoping also in hardware, to make boot Windows 7 less in time, I think PC MOBO will implement EFI and replace old BIOS tech...like on Mac's that they use EFI.

Yeah, EFI looks better from what I see. Time to get rid of all the legacy code in Windows 7.

I would like to see it redesigned from the ground up, and built to be more than a "simple UI" like it is now.
Vista is a joke, it's basically XP with a facelift. I want a change like from 98 to XP (Cause we all know we don't count ME or 2k).

Not really, Vista is a pretty major change from XP, and a lot of that is under the hood. They made a lot of changes to the code, which made Windows Vista a good deal more secure (proof of this is the amount of security updates for Vista).

There should be a new "pie" UI, though we won't see that till like M3 at least.

Anyway, they should create a new kernel, and then use Hyper-V to run legacy apps.

Want to see something new, want Microsoft to surprise me! I am currently happy with XP.

Yeah,but still,Microsoft was also making some ''bloatware'' in their kernel by themselves...

So, like remove IE from being integrated in Windows? Yeah, that sounds like a good idea to me.