What Features Should Windows Really Have?

I definitely agree with your 2nd point. Microsoft should do a better job at integrating all of its products together.

I also think they should refine existing features. Many of the features in Vista are good, but they short of being great because of little details. Their software should be more user friendly but be useful for the power user. For example, the Photo Gallery feature should have the ability to select and assign existing tags when importing photos from your camera. Media Center should be able to sort TV shows by first aired date. The Zune software should allow you to edit the meta data of videos. There should be a way to assign the printscreen function to the new snipping tool. they should make a built in clipboard that retained a history and saved clippings. etc. All these features are good, but within minutes you can think of how they can improve things.

They should use flashier effects. Many websites today use flash for fancy navigation and effects. You would think that Windows by now would also have such a navigational experience.

I also think Windows should only have one version of its OS.  For one thing everyone should have ultimate. Everyone should have the very useful shadow copy feature. If a user doesn't have a computer power enough for the latest OS, then Microsoft shouldn't be afraid to tell that user that he either needs to stick with their current OS or get a new more powerful computer. Vista should be the last 32 bit OS that they make. They should force the hardware manufacturers to make computers strong enough to handle a 64 bit OS. Perhaps MS should get into the hardware game like Apple and make their own computers. MS computers could be top of the line. If users wanted a budget computer then they could go with Dell, HP, etc.

Anyway that's just a little what I'd change.

Hi Jaxim, I agree with a lot of what you said, but unfortunately every time Microsoft tries to make their different services/products integrated they get hit with an anti-trust lawsuit.  Just imagine if they tried to get into the actual PC manufacturing game, I'd kringe at how fast they got sued.

For me, something I would love to see (and this may be a bit technical, but bear with me) would be a revamp of the domain authentication engine in Windows.  Those of you who use Outlook & Exchange know about something called RPC over HTTPS, or essentially encrypted authenticaiton and data stream via the internet.  I would love to see computers be able to login to a domain, and be domain managed with a simple internet connection.  No VPN, none of that, just native, encrypted authentication and domain traffic.

I also have to agree with you Jaxim about a much cooler interface, in fact I made a plea to MS about this in an earlier post.  With WPF, the potential is mind blowing.  I really, really hope they ignore all the crap out there and push ahead with an even more beautiful and intuative interface.