Windows 10 Wish List

I’ve used Windows since version 2, and until Windows 8, its user interface had seemingly evolved in a logical fashion. People might have (rightly) called Windows ME and Vista all sorts of unprintable names, but at least they didn’t force you to use a patronising, Fisher Price-style tile array out of the box, which you then have to control with a mouse. 
Windows 8 just makes my working life difficult in a fewways that aren’t issues with Windows 7, even when you’ve installed software such as Classic Shell. It’s not just me and a fewInternet haters either. Even now, market stats shows that significantly more people use Windows XP– anowun supported OS that came  out 12 years ago – than Windows 8. 
Assuch, Microsoft’s recent announcement of Windows 10 is looking pretty good so far. A proper Start menu is coming back, combining the classic Windows Start menu with Windows 8 style live tiles. What’s more, Microsoft is abandoning its bizarre one-OSfits-all approach, so the Windows desktop OS will be a proper Windows desktop OS, rather than forcing you to use a weird, big-screen tablet OS out of the box. 
That’s all good, but Windows 10 needs to offer more than a shinier version of Windows 7 if it’s going to sell. I know Microsoft’s priority audience is business, but I also really want to push the home features that I think Microsoft should include in Windows 10. So, without further ado, here’s my Windows 10 wish list. One, bring back Media Center as a standard component, and bring it uptodate.Despite it soccasi on a linst ability, in my opinion, Windows Media Center has the best PC remote control interface available, but Microsoft has see mingly abandoned it, and arguably at a time when it could be at its most useful. We now have many UK video-streaming services, such as Net flix, Amazon Instant Video and iPlayer, and we also have half decent legitimate movie download services, such as BlinkBox. Annoyingly, though, there’s a lack of devices that handle all of them properly, with limited codec support and often underpowered processors. A revamped Media Center with the ability for third parties to easily add extensions for their systems could be the one media box to rule the mall, with the addedability
to play back music and movies using practically any codec. Plus, you could install a Free view, cable or satellite TV card too. Two, introduce a lounge gaming interface, which isn’t out of the realms of possibility, given Microsoft’s PC and Xbox One crossover plans with DirectX. Now that Steam OS is delayed, Microsoft could introduce a gamepad-controlled TV interface that not only enables you to play your games on a lounge PC, but also stream them from a desktop else where in your house. Three, sort out 4K scaling. To be fair, Windows 8.1 already handles 4K scaling pretty well,but I hope Microsoft will tout 4K asamain newfeature of Windows10,and give support to third-party developers to take advantage of it. I want to use Windows and all my Windows software at 4K without any weird fuzzy text, out-of-proportion buttons or interfaces that are too small to use. Mac OS has been doing it for years – there’s no reason why PCs can’t do it too. Four, bring back Aero. That isn’t a deal breaker, but a personal preference – I prefer the transparency effects to Windows 8’s flat UI. At the very least, it would be good to have it as an option. These are just a few ideas that would make Windows 10 a compelling up grade for me.It’s already got off to a good start, let’s  hope Microsoft doesn’t screw it up.