{"id":3010,"date":"2010-08-20T14:53:34","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T13:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/3010-what-users-want-in-windows-8.html"},"modified":"2010-08-20T14:53:34","modified_gmt":"2010-08-20T13:53:34","slug":"what-users-want-in-windows-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/3010-what-users-want-in-windows-8.html","title":{"rendered":"What users want in Windows 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of blogs are running a coordinated poll on what users would most like to see in the next version of Windows. The results so far are unsurprising but still worth repeating, since there is a good chance that they differ from Microsoft\u2019s priorities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/image13.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/image_thumb13.png\" width=\"346\" height=\"452\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Note that users are less concerned about new features, more concerned about an OS that works better and faster.<\/p>\n<p>Less bloat, currently number five in the list, will be hard to achieve while PC vendors still insist in bundling poor quality add-ons with their systems.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to vote you can do so at any of various blogs including <a title=\"http:\/\/4sysops.com\/archives\/the-windows-8-poll\/\" href=\"http:\/\/4sysops.com\/archives\/the-windows-8-poll\/\" target=\"_blank\">4sysops<\/a> \u2013 which has some notes expanding on what each category might mean &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/\">markwilson.it<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.withinwindows.com\/\">Within Windows<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of blogs are running a coordinated poll on what users would most like to see in the next version of Windows. The results so far are unsurprising but still worth repeating, since there is a good chance that they differ from Microsoft\u2019s priorities. Note that users are less concerned about new features, more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/3010-what-users-want-in-windows-8.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What users want in Windows 8<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,67,97,98],"tags":[586,996,999],"class_list":["post-3010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","category-professional","category-windows","category-windows-7","tag-microsoft","tag-windows","tag-windows-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}