[RogerKnights]

MS should consider some way of revising or replacing the Internet by creating a set of protocols that would greatly diminish spam, security problems, and various sorts of malware. If it cost five billion it would be worth it—in part because it would have built-in a micro-payment feature that would allow sites to avoid ads, plus a built-in directory to contents, both of which would reduce the role of Google. It would be close to Nelson’s original vision of what the Internet should be.

(I have no idea HOW this would be accomplished, but where there’s a will there’s a way.)

[eric9]

Do what Apple does. Very very rarely does an Apple update damage one of my Macs and when it does, off to the Apple store where they fix it.

The update problems, the activation issues, and Vista's incompatability with my hardware caused me to switch to a Mac and leave Windows

Even my 6 year old Epson Scanner works with OS X 10.5 (Leopard). All of my existing hardware works with OS X 105.

Try that one Microsoft

[foxxnetMarcelo]

I have long been an advocate of the MS Windows operating system, but lately, I have been changing my opinion. Windows is too big. Every time we get a faster CPU, Microsoft takes it as license to give us a more bloated OS. The result is that my PC isn't that much faster. IE is especially a nuisance. It hangs at every oportunity and is slow. My old Netscape outperforms IE by a long shot. We should be able to remove this program.
I am for the first time seriously considering removing Windows and going with Linux Umbutu. After doing more research about compatible software, I will do just that.
WAKE UP MICROSOFT! YOU HAVE MADE YOURSELF VULNERABLE.
foxxnetmarcelo

[phaser]

Unquestionably, Microsoft needs change. Not through reinvention, but via getting back to the basics the company was founded upon. Providing a Disk Operating System that works and works very well on all platforms, for all users is what every PC owner/user clamours for. Windows Vista came in a broken box, Windows XP has more patches than you can shake a stick at and soon faces extinction, and the next Windows version is, no doubt, millions more lines of code added to the Vista base. Microsoft needs to start from scratch; hire competent programmers who are experienced and take pride in their work, demand project managers settle for nothing less that perfection and begin the new Windows with the first "1" and "0". Programming perfection is as necessary as programming accuracy, both aimed at producing a final Windows product that works. Forget the built in image viewers, media managers, web browser, etc. Those should be add-ons the user can select during and after the basic operation system installation. Or, those add-ons could be substituted for third party programs - Firefox, instead of Internet Explorer, Norton Internet Security instead of Windows Firewall, etc. The next Windows needs to be a "one operating system for all users" by being fully customizable.

Microsoft, as a company, needs to restructure itself from the top down; a leadership that can bring Microsoft into the 21st century and reconnect to its customers and put them first. After all, no company is more valuable than its customers, for without them, the company would cease to exist. And, Mr. Gates has lost touch with what is important to users. I find it impossible to believe that Gates uses the same, off-the-shelf, retail version of Windows that I use. If so, he must go through PC's like changes of socks...throwing them out the window every time Windows crashes. Remember the incident when Windows crashed as Mr. Gates was attempting to demostrate the new Microsoft Windows 95 to the press? Somethings never change...Windows is still crashing and that's where Microsoft needs reinvention, too! Free support for users having problems with its products has been demanded from Microsoft since it abandoned its users satisfaction for the bottom-line. Although Microsoft offers support for installation problems, that support is severely lacking. If a "hot-fix' exists for a specific problem, the user needs to prove it is needed and provide the support technician with the exact issue and where it can be found on the Microsoft support site. That is simply unacceptable. When users pay good money for a product, it needs to come with free support and a money back warranty.

[royeo]

I could go all day long bad mouthing the corporation Microsoft, but that's not what I'm going to do. I know this probably isn't the right place to do this, but this is the first time and place I've been able do it. (And I've been looking for a long time.) There are a few ides that Microsoft could get from some versions of Linux. I have Fedora 8 now and this has been in earlier versions. (I almost exclusively use Windows.)
In Fedora I really like the fact that you can put many items in the clipboard, and you don't have to right the selected and then click "Copy." And this is really good: When you log off (shut down), Fedora saves whatever is in the clipboard, and it's there when you log on.
It seems that Microsoft could easily implement this. Do you think Microsoft even knows about this? If they don't, they should.
Roy O'Neill