Would like to see an option for the USER to pick the kind of shell they want for the OS
so that both parties are happy windows7 users will have the startmenu back , while windows8 users can get the windows 8 style startmenu.
A one click solution would be nice to quickly switch between those styles.

Most important:
I would like to be not forced to upgrade windows8.1 to windows Threshold aka Windows10 because I don’t want to have the old/NEW startmenu10 back unless they have an option like mentioned above. Edit: turns out it has 

Would like to see some improvements on the personalisation also.
Aero and Blur -an extra option to choose to install that would be nice.
I hope they will make some improvements to Ad-Hoc .

A simpler safe mode boot function without activating F8 or checking boxes.( an extra option besides restart maybe ? ) something better than shift restarting...that’s all the rest was smooth in windows8 already cant wait to see what actually has been improved

Windows 7 with a proper file search and a static tool bar!

Oh really? I only just upgraded to windows 7......

What i personally expect from win 9:

1) NTFS with real sym and hardlinks, no registry crap.

2) Global menu bar option  for applications insode panels  ( main menubar inside panel)

3) a grey theme design with nice borders for buttons

4) a launcher/start dock with opened apps on the right or bottom side.

5) a desktop icon / fences like  full screen start menu woth real icons

6) nicer and rounder  min max close buttons.

7) wine integration into the system:  https://www.winehq.org  ( yes the windows emulator schould also be integrated to win7 with a patch ( really necessary) !!!)

8) the new metro ui apps windowed with menu and toolbar.

If microsoft implement these 8 points in their systems i would buy it. if not win 7 is enough for me.

regards bluedxca93

I want to see windows 7 with a 9 on it.  No more than that.  What I don't want is to smell windows 8 anywhere near it.

^^^^What he said.

Why would you want to run a Windows emulator when you have the real thing?

 hi,

  ah , yes i did forget dosbox integration as 9. point.  

Why? Test old/early 32 bit applications and some xp apps  on windows 7 and on slitaz with wine. If they run on wine they run normally more stable and faster. For these apps you would not need a VM normally .

And windows 64 bit does nearly break these apps runtime processes and you have to run most of them with administrator rights why ? that is the question here.   I need it especially for editing simple pdfs. ( on linux there program works and on windows it crashes often even if its a windows program.) .Photo Line a graphic editor  is really fast on wine, but so slow on windows.

 Also why doesn`t my norton  commander work well on windows 7 ? i did search for reasons but didn`t find one. 

i do find it frustrating that approx. only + 50 mb of installation disk cache could ensure backward compatibility. Microsoft does like to force the users to buy new programs, even if there is no reason. I hope that win9 would add a compatibility layer for 32 and 16 bit programs. They don`t even think that a system more compatible to older software could increase the sales of the Os in this case win9. No they try to invent new GUI what is a good thing, but don`t respect the fact that users like to run older software too. Its natural that they can`t support every old program , but they don`t  even try to make old simple apps runable without support. The win 7 xp 95 etc combatibility layer is only a fake for some registry matters and some what os am i using calls from these appplications. DAMN

 regards bluedxca93

Norton Commander? NC's been "dead" for years......

I believe you mean Windows Commander - which by the way works just fine in any Windows version.

MOAR TILES

Not really its linux clone midnight commender is still alive on linux . Looks very much like nc5.exe......

oh i forgot  a gui  without back , forward and min max close title bar buttons would be great too [to increase usability )= . This amazing and great  idea was already implemented in win 8 somewhere )= ]  .

A destop tha can easily be morphed into a win 7 formant.  Hate, hate, button being moved, changed, dialog boxes changing, and menus revamped.  OH, did I mention I hate relearning the basic use of the desktop cause MS shuffles all the elements around?

will you guys bring back desktopX? saw it mentioned above..

delve-miller

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will you guys bring back desktopX? saw it mentioned above..

I'd say probably not.

Correct me if I'm wrong please, but haven't you been a proponent of all things Linux and (as far as phones go) droid over windows whenever you get the chance?  I would think 'emulating windows' would be exactly up your alley no? 

That's probably only the stance taken on dates that are a prime number....at other times it'll be 'something else' ....

Dual booting windows is usually better for performance than running a virtual machine or emulation program...since the windows is typically for games, performance kind of matters....

Sure, I like to root for the little guy. I root for Linux and Android when I can, but here's something you probably did not know. I could never use Linux as my main OS, and in all of the time I have been a member here I have used Windows.

I have my reasons why I could never use Linux everyday, wrote a blog article about it. I just think MicroSoft has gotten a bit to big and taken Windows in a direction not many people like.

Windows 7 2.0

but likely they will make a harder to use not as controllable OS with stuff that was free that we must now pay for.

And I didn't know SD could redo windows 8 to look and be like windows 7! So I could press the Microsoft button and be sent to the good old desk top again vs the tiles when playing galciv3???!!! Someone tell me more about this?!???!?

DARCA

Darca.... you're posting from Stardock's GalCiv II website forum.... whereas others [like me] are posting from Stardock's WinCUSTOMIZE website forum - they're interlinked [and with others too].

Post OS2, Stardock turned its attention to MS Windows [last millennium] and has been closely connected with MS ever since - designing ways to Improve the Windows Experience [GUI].

Pop over and have a look ...

www.wincustomize.com