Features you wish for in Windows XP Service Pack 3.......please post your views

[David Candy]

It's a matter of money. Nearly all people view jpegs on computers. MS pays the license fee. But a lot of people do not play DVDs on their computer (my mum, dad, and sister). Also as the DVD player has paid the license fee people who have one would have paid for two licenses if MS also included it.

 

[Bob I]

Sorry, but even pencils break.

Question: With trillions of dollars to be made in the online marketing/
banking/service industry, why haven't those folks looking at making the
trillions gotten together and produced one new piece of software:

A secure tool that is somewhere between a mailer and a browser,
that is only used for these business transactions, something
that when you get a message from your bank or your store you
know it can't be forged, it can't be a fraud, it can't be phishing?
Something that has a reputation for dependability and safety?
And, they give it to you because they want the trillions.

Why hasn't this been done? Much smaller than an OS. Way more profit.
Shouldn't be impossible to make this more secure than using your Visa
card or your ATM card, in fact, maybe that is what you need to stuff
into the drive to authenticate your end of the communication or
transaction. And that same card is what authenticates the bank/
merchant's traffic coming to you, any and everything else that doesn't
authenticate maibombs the national credit fraud swat team with a message.
Six-Sigma quality software, one failure per thousand year (full time year
round, round the clock) customer use is actually feasible if you limit
the trazillion feature crap down to "it works, never fails, with the
bare minimum number of features you really need to do your job."

 

[Mike Brannigan [MSFT]]

If people wish to make product feature etc suggestions - instead of posting
to un monitored newsgroups they should make their product suggestion via
http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

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[David Candy]

They're ignored there. And you noticed it here.

 

[Leythos]

If people wish to make product feature etc suggestions - instead of posting
to un monitored newsgroups they should make their product suggestion via
http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

Mike, many of us, as partners and ISV, do pass our wish-lists on to the
proper channels at MS.

This group is a means to see what each of us think. If you post, only, to
that page you can't see what others have asked for, and you can't enter
into discussion with them about it.

 

[Guest]

A user group for children so that parents/grandparents can control the
programs the children can execute or the data they can see. It should be
easily managed by the parent as a lot of them are not computer literate. The
Microsoft IE browser needs to have separate user settings so that content can
be managed for all users, but the administrator must approve content for
childrens users, building an a list of approved URLs that each child can
visit as Earthlink does in their children's browser. There should be a
decision matrix for the installation of new software (such as games) in which
the administrator decides which users have the right to execute the program.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

A user group for children so that parents/grandparents can control the
programs the children can execute or the data they can see. It
should be easily managed by the parent as a lot of them are not
computer literate. The Microsoft IE browser needs to have separate
user settings so that content can be managed for all users, but the
administrator must approve content for childrens users, building an a
list of approved URLs that each child can visit as Earthlink does in
their children's browser. There should be a decision matrix for the
installation of new software (such as games) in which the
administrator decides which users have the right to execute the
program.

There are third party apps/utilities that will help you with this, but note
that you can mail feature requests to (e-mail address removed) . I doubt very
much that Microsoft is paying heed to this newsgroup thread - it's useful
mainly to vent to other users in these groups.

Note that the sad truth is: there is probably not much that a
not-too-tech-savvy parent/grandparent can implement, that a clever
child/teenager cannot work around.

The only real way to know what your kids are doing on a computer is to be in
the same room watching them when they're on it. And remember, a computer is
not a birthright - if a kid is doing stuff they shouldn't, take the computer
access away.

 

[Paul Knudsen]

A user group for children so that parents/grandparents can control the
programs the children can execute or the data they can see. It should be
easily managed by the parent as a lot of them are not computer literate. The
Microsoft IE browser needs to have separate user settings so that content can
be managed for all users, but the administrator must approve content for
childrens users, building an a list of approved URLs that each child can
visit as Earthlink does in their children's browser. There should be a
decision matrix for the installation of new software (such as games) in which
the administrator decides which users have the right to execute the program.

A good point, but kids are going to see porn regardless. It's a part
of online life nowadays.