What If.
Microsoft XP 2016. (32 and 64 bit).
With XP being the the second most used OS after 14 years it would be great if Microsoft re-engineered XP to bring some aspects up to current standards and had two OS's to choose from.
Windows 10, yes I suppose Windows 10 is here to stay and the, “Windows as a service” part of Windows 10 will not go away. Many of us do not like like Windows 10 for many reasons, privacy being the tip of the iceberg.
Windows 10 is more of a, “let the OS do things it's way” and ignore the vast majority of PC and OS users who prefer to have control of the OS and not the OS in control of the user.
Windows XP 2016 perhaps.
Offered as 32 and 64 bit.
The most user friendly and unbreakable OS since Windows 2000. All of the features of the present XP with the necessary inclusions.
Microsoft .NetFramework.
Silverlight.
Improved “personalisation” and certainly not the Windows 10, “white on white”. Personal preference here, I like the Windows 8.1 look.
If it must be, offer Internet Explorer Ver 11 with the base code of Microsoft Edge but not the Edge screen presentation. Stay with the, traditional” Internet Explorer look. And, the big one, break the grasp of the Bing search engine and allow a choice of search engines.
No, “tiles”. The desktop is the desktop.
The Start bar the same.
No requirement forced on the user to have a Microsoft Account.
For those of us that like to spend time playing the traditional games built into XP, modernise these to,”real” full screen. There is a Microsoft pack that does this for Windows 8 to Windows 10 and gives the same look and feel to these old favouites as Windows 7. Funny, the end of a successful game has the same, “effects” as the Vista versions.
Program compatibility. Quite a few of our old and favourite programs will not run on Windows from Windows 8 to Windows 10. Rather annoying really. Keep the XP compatibility in any new build of XP for older programs.
Offer any new version of XP as an OS for the enthusiast and do not tie it to the Microsoft Store, Bing, or MSN.
Microsoft, take a good look at Linux. Driver problems still beset us. Linux just looks at a device and says, “oh, you are one of those, no problem”.
There are so many great aspects of XP I know I have not even scratched the surface with some poor ideas for a, “new XP”.
Please put your ideas, “into the pot”.
Pricing. Well Microsoft has made mega-millions with XP. A little goodwill perhaps by offering a, “new XP” as a free upgrade without the forced upgrade aspects of Windows 10.
Having a, “new XP” would possibly split users into two streams. The “enthusiast” and the, “do it for me” users.
Ah, dreams. That's all this is I suppose, just a silly dream.
Zzzzz,
Mark. (Aunty Jack).