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HTH Send message Joined: 8 Jul 00 Posts: 691 Credit: 909,237 RAC: 0 |
Hi! How can I send these Windows 7 suggestions to Microsoft? Henri. Manned mission to Mars in 2019 Petition <-- Sign this, please. |
AriZonaMoon* Send message Joined: 26 Apr 06 Posts: 5556 Credit: 1,541,289 RAC: 0 |
Hi! ..ehrmm.. by airplane ?? hehehe Hei Henri ;-) |
HTH Send message Joined: 8 Jul 00 Posts: 691 Credit: 909,237 RAC: 0 |
Hei, AriZonaMoon! ;)
Maybe it's more "green" to use e-mail. ;) Henri. Manned mission to Mars in 2019 Petition <-- Sign this, please. |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24879 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Try this....Microsoft forums On many of their forums, the posters do get listened to & improvements have been made which were suggested. |
HTH Send message Joined: 8 Jul 00 Posts: 691 Credit: 909,237 RAC: 0 |
Hi! Try this....Microsoft forums Thanks, Sirius B! :) Henri. Manned mission to Mars in 2019 Petition <-- Sign this, please. |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
One suggestion I can think of is Less security fixes!! I know windows 2000 had at least 100 + LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
OzzFan Send message Joined: 9 Apr 02 Posts: 15691 Credit: 84,761,841 RAC: 28 |
One suggestion I can think of is Less security fixes!! I thought security was a good thing? Its awful hard to make a perfectly secure OS the first time around, which is why fixes are offered. |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
One suggestion I can think of is Less security fixes!! Let me reword it Less flaws than the OS before windows 7 :o) LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
OzzFan Send message Joined: 9 Apr 02 Posts: 15691 Credit: 84,761,841 RAC: 28 |
One suggestion I can think of is Less security fixes!! It would be nice, but its unrealistic. Windows is expected to run on such a large variety of hardware, and is supposed to support a large range of software that there are bound to be problems found in hindsight. There's not an OS out there that could do better. ;) |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
One suggestion I can think of is Less security fixes!! True, windows seems to have more of the lions share of flaws than other Operating systems. Windows is more user friendly than other Operating systems I have used. :o) LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
Mike Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 34258 Credit: 79,922,639 RAC: 80 |
"Performance-wise, Windows 7 appears to be in the Windows Vista ballpark. It certainly boots up more quickly than its predecessor, and it is a spirited and lively system in use, with one familiar exception: File copies, especially network-based file copies, are still often surprisingly slow. I have a feeling Microsoft still hasn't fixed what appears to be an endemic issue with the Vista-era networking stack." Quelle: Windows 7 beta leaks to Internet With each crime and every kindness we birth our future. |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 20283 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
Let me reword it Less flaws than the OS before windows 7 :o) Sorry, but those arguments are very lame and lacklustre. There's a big difference between general bugs and blatant "security flaws"... The range of hardware supported should make no difference to 'security'. One exception is for 8-bit and 16-bit systems that don't have any sort of 'protected mode' but then again, I don't know of any Windows system that runs on those... Cheers, Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
OzzFan Send message Joined: 9 Apr 02 Posts: 15691 Credit: 84,761,841 RAC: 28 |
Let me reword it Less flaws than the OS before windows 7 :o) Its hard to have blatant "security flaws" when any other OS of choice other than Windows isn't being exploited by the entire hacker community as it has been deemed 'not worth it'. Then again, I find your arguments that Linux doesn't suffer from 'flaws', or when they do they are immediately patched (which is to say nothing about those who actually apply those patches), or that somehow Linux will never suffer from malware to be quite lame and lackluster. The range of hardware supported should make no difference to 'security'. One exception is for 8-bit and 16-bit systems that don't have any sort of 'protected mode' but then again, I don't know of any Windows system that runs on those... The hardware range shouldn't make a difference, but the drivers used to make that hardware work can. A likewise, any other piece of software can have adverse affects as well. |
KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade! Send message Joined: 20 Dec 05 Posts: 3187 Credit: 57,163,290 RAC: 0 |
It's hard to make any software that consists of a billion lines of code + totally secure - there's always something that doesn't get tested either in the alpha or beta test process... That said, Micro$oft should do a better job at testing anything that is open to the I-net, (buffers, etc) at the very least - ensuring that you can't overrun any buffer, for example. . Hello, from Albany, CA!... |
OzzFan Send message Joined: 9 Apr 02 Posts: 15691 Credit: 84,761,841 RAC: 28 |
That said, Micro$oft should do a better job at testing anything that is open to the I-net, (buffers, etc) at the very least - ensuring that you can't overrun any buffer, for example. Agreed. |
Euan Holton Send message Joined: 4 Sep 99 Posts: 65 Credit: 17,441,343 RAC: 0 |
There's a very good Microsoft blog called Engineering Windows 7. It has been going into some detail about the various software engineering decisions - and process improvements - that are going into this new OS. It's a very good read, and worth checking back to every week or two to see if there's a new post. |
Dr. C.E.T.I. Send message Joined: 29 Feb 00 Posts: 16019 Credit: 794,685 RAC: 0 |
. . . Microsoft has nobody in there ;) Thanks for that Link btw . . . There's a very good Microsoft blog called Engineering Windows 7. It has been going into some detail about the various software engineering decisions - and process improvements - that are going into this new OS. It's a very good read, and worth checking back to every week or two to see if there's a new post. BOINC Wiki . . . Science Status Page . . . |
KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade! Send message Joined: 20 Dec 05 Posts: 3187 Credit: 57,163,290 RAC: 0 |
Let me reword it Less flaws than the OS before windows 7 :o) 8 bit - Windows version 1, 2 16 bit - Windows version 3.0, 3.1 (the first really successful Windoze version, BTW - or, at least, the first version that didn't take a half hour to load!) Win 3.1 also ran in "real Mode", an 8-bit mode... post-Win95 newcomer?
. Hello, from Albany, CA!... |
OzzFan Send message Joined: 9 Apr 02 Posts: 15691 Credit: 84,761,841 RAC: 28 |
The range of hardware supported should make no difference to 'security'. One exception is for 8-bit and 16-bit systems that don't have any sort of 'protected mode' but then again, I don't know of any Windows system that runs on those... Actually, that's incorrect. Windows v1 and v2 are both 16bit "real" mode, as well as Windows 3.x. All MS-DOS and Windows software started out as purely 16bit, running on IBM's new PC built around the first 16bit Intel processor with an 8bit data bus, the Intel 8088. Protected Mode refers to a capability built into the Intel 80286 processor and all later CPUs. Also note that Windows v1 and v2 both loaded in less than a minute, which is/was far quicker than Windows v3, so I wouldn't call Windows 3.1 to be the first version to load in less than half an hour. Of course, most techies would agree that Windows v1, v2, v3, Windows 9x and Windows ME were all shell programs built to run on top of MS-DOS and thus not real OSes to begin with. The Windows NT era of OSes are the only true Windows OSes that do not require MS-DOS to be running underneath. |
Dr. C.E.T.I. Send message Joined: 29 Feb 00 Posts: 16019 Credit: 794,685 RAC: 0 |
. . . i 'genuinely' appreciate havin' my External USB Floppy drive [@ Ozz] ;) comes in mighty handy @ times dos, dos, dos . . . Happy New Year - btw BOINC Wiki . . . Science Status Page . . . |
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