In a shortlist of new features nosotros would all like to meet in Windows 10, there are a few at the top of that list we now know Microsoft is working on already: the return of the Beginning carte du jour, less Modern UI where you don't demand information technology, and other desktop-focused productivity enhancements similar virtual desktops.

There are others that Microsoft believes to have tackled but in reality are sorely lacking, to name two big ones: universal search and 4k monitor/HiDPI support.

We asked TechSpot's staff what they thought of the Windows 10 announcement and what changes they would similar to run into on Microsoft'south new OS iteration.


Julio Franco

Like every other Windows user, I felt like Microsoft heard my wishes when it appear Windows x's desktop improvements. Yet I don't recollect Windows' release cycle is broken because of a lack of features, but because information technology's happened over again and once again that when a new Windows version arrives, it leaves united states with the feeling that the adjacent major revision will finally ready what they didn't become right in the start place.

Windows 8.i should take fixed the Start menu's absence, merely it didn't, and so the official remedy won't get in until a full two years subsequently. That's not acceptable and Microsoft should know ameliorate.

Which goes to my ultimate request for Windows 10. Microsoft has the necessary means to brand a cohesive, elegant operating organization that "just works" on modernistic hardware. Nosotros've been promised that for well-nigh a decade and instead of opening new fronts I wish Windows 10 gets us to that signal where the Bone feels perfectly polished and finished from the moment you boot upwards, wake up from sleep, upgrade or backup your organisation, and then on. Windows 7 was ever so close to delivering that (fixing Vista's faults), and while Windows 8 did improve a lot behind the scenes, the lack of UI cohesiveness was a disaster.

Windows loyalists won't like to read this, just OS 10 has been delivering in this forepart for the past 3-4 years with a yearly cycle of costless OS updates.


Steven Walton

I am excited for the arrival of Microsoft'due south latest OS and can't wait to explore the new features. Having said that I didn't have a problem with Windows 8 for the simple fact that it takes a quick download and a few seconds to fix it for costless.

Autonomously from the missing Start button and worthless metro screen (for desktops) there isn't anything I establish bad about the operating system. When compared to Windows 7, it is my opinion that Windows 8 was a amend version (minus the Start menu outcome), I think of it every bit a more than polished version of vii really.

Since the just thing I really desire is the Starting time menu, it looks like I volition go my wish.


Tim Schiesser

The ane matter that irked me most most Windows 8 and 8.1 was the lack of a cohesive blueprint between the 'Modern UI' – a.yard.a. the new Start screen and its full-screen applications – and the desktop. As a desktop PC user I spend near time in the traditional Windows interface, and its design but doesn't meld well with the new style, looking like a slightly upgraded version of Windows 7.

In Windows 10 I desire to run across a full overhaul of the desktop UI, making it fit in with the Modern interface. I don't want to run into sometime-mode icons combined with flat icons throughout the Bone, I don't want to see out of place gradients or transparencies: I desire a unified style that'south modern, visually pleasing and consistent. It'd also be prissy if Microsoft would fix/amend loftier DPI scaling, allowing us to become the best out of high-resolution displays.


Matthew DeCarlo

I would like more attention paid to windows themselves in Windows 10. Aero Snap was a cracking beginning footstep just managing windows beyond several displays is clumsier than it needs to be. There are times when I want a keyboard shortcut to put a window in the corner one-half-screen vertically and half-screen horizontally (Windows key + Up and Left arrows to put it in the top left for instance), or the power to hold control to select and drag many windows at one time, or even just a profile setting that remembers where I similar my windows to motorcar-snap them all back into place after a hectic mean solar day. Those types of features currently crave tertiary-party tools.


Shawn Knight

I've never been the type that likes change. My kickoff few experiences with Windows 8 were dreadful; so much had changed visually that I felt lost (and I'thou non just talking near the Outset Menu, although that was a large part of it).

Based on what Microsoft has revealed regarding Windows 10 thus far, I'thousand the verbal person they are targeting – the Windows 7 user that wants all of the performance improvements that come with a new OS without feeling like everything has changed.

That said, what I want to see nigh in Windows 10 is nothing new at all. Do all of the tweaks, enhancements and optimizations necessary to build a lightning-fast environs but exercise it behind the scenes. I simply want a speedy Os that I'm familiar with.


Per Hansson

When I initially tried the Windows 8 beta I had high hopes, I really liked many of the changes and thought I could easily alive with some of the commonly voiced shortcomings. Every bit I used the OS through the development phase however I became more and more distanced from it, merely like with Windows Vista, I really felt that cohesiveness was defective in the Os.

I'm writing this on the Windows 10 Technical Preview and in a way I'one thousand having the exact same feelings. I'm having high hopes, many things to me are a godsend, like re-create & paste into the command prompt, how come we did non accept that 15 years agone?

Just in that location are also jarring experiences, for example searching for "mouse" from the revamped Beginning card brings up exactly i match, and it brings you to the Metro-based "PC Settings" which is sorely defective in features, indeed not even mouse pointer speed was possible to adjust from there...

I accept non had time to test all the new features, merely I like what I meet. I'yard making sure to provide feedback for the things I recollect could be improved, and I hope you lot do the same. Because information technology felt similar Microsoft turned a deaf ear towards it's user base with Windows 8, so hither'south to hoping this will change with Windows 10.


Rick Burgess

One of several changes I'd like to meet is cost. Following its "Bluish" initiative, it appears Redmond aims to give the states quick, iterative Windows upgrades. Heck, Windows might even become a subscription or cloud-based offering someday.

If Microsoft's rapid-release mantra is in full swing by Windows 10, I'm hopeful Microsoft will finally re-evaluate its pricing. At $150 a pop for every PC you own, yearly upgrades will definitely accept consumers re-evaluating the importance of staying up-to-appointment. Microsoft should lower its Windows pricing significantly, not through time-limited promos either, but through an honest to goodness price reduction. Offering free upgrades, Apple has prepare an interesting precedent for Mac Os X.

I recall every Windows user would love to see gratis Windows OS upgrades. Of class, unlike Apple, "complimentary" may be a piffling more complicated for Microsoft given its lack of vertical integration. How about xxx bucks? What would you be willing to pay for annual Windows upgrades, if anything?


What about you, our readers?

And then in that location you take it. Though not everyone was completely put off by Windows 8, the general feeling is that it lacked articulate direction and a cohesive pattern between the 'Mod UI' and traditional desktop.

Third party software helped gear up a fair share of annoyances and then eight.1 took intendance of a few more, but moving forward Microsoft volition need to testify it has learned from its mistakes and prove that it tin evangelize something that feels more polished out of the box without upsetting a legion of power (and vocal) users -- not the easiest task, for sure.

Nosotros know many of you have already taken Windows x for a spin and many more are planning to. From what you've read or seen then far, what exercise you feel is withal missing? What would be the number one thing yous'd like to see Microsoft address?