Linked by Adam S on Thu 10th Jul 2008 16:58 UTC
Gadgetzone.com has an interesting artcile on 20 things Windows 7 MUST include (their emphasis, not mine). They begin "Despite its enhanced security, improved CPU scheduler and excellent stability, it's still the flawed gem in many critics' eyes. But can Microsoft win back the XP crowd with its upcoming Windows 7 offering? The fact is, they have to." My Take: Not sure I agree with them all -- do home users really care about WinFS? -- but some, like home user licensing and simpler management of startup items would be really compelling features for upgraders.
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If they can write it so that dependent apps where opened previous to apps further down the chain then that is not a big issue. The real issue, for my anyhow, is taking focus by default.
If I'm working in a program and I know I'm going to need another heavy program, I'll start it loading then go back to my first task. The new program begins to load and the splash screen takes focus away from the task I want to be doing. I turn off the splash screen when the option is available. Now I have the large program take focus away from what I'm doing. I can't tell you the number of times I've looked away from the screen only to look back and find the second half of my input spread across fields in the new program.
(I'm the user, I'll bloody tell you, the computer, what task I need to work on. You just go and load the damn program in the background and wait until the user is ready for it.)
They would have to correct that everlasting bug so that focus remains where the user prefers it and new windows open in background.