I don’t see where it’s bashing to point out features that appear to be achievable and that are useful. Frankly, it seems to me that unless customers make vendors aware of their perceived shortcomings and make suggestions for improvement, the vendors will suffer as a result. These writers are doing Microsoft a favor.
Maybe, but the problem is that M-soft is rather tone-deaf when it comes to listening to the public and its customers.
Unless people put up a continuous rebellion, Microsoft, Walmart, and the other merchandizing giants will decide what is best for you and you will be left with that and will have no choice in your life. Those giants are already shaping the culture to suit themselves.
You can make a case to MS for changes but “because Mac has it” won’t get you very far.
MS is a big company, far far far bigger than Mac. They have a huge customer base to think of and consider impact on. Mac doesn’t and can cater to more boutique tastes.
Well, bashing MicroSlop would be fine if they had a point. In fact, most of the functionality they want built into the OS is already available in ten different versions as shareware and low cost utilities for Windows. It seems to me that's a much better way to go than trying to talk Microsoft into adding further feature bloat and CPU theft into all the rest of our machines who may not care about 16 of these 18 "killer" features. Microsoft's operating systems already have a reputation for being too top heavy. What they need to do is jettison some of the stuff that's already in there and let people who want a given feature add it back in. Except for the desktop management stuff and maybe the ability to burn ISO's, none of this is OS level business anyway.