{"id":1698,"date":"2010-06-02T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T14:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/?p=1698"},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:07:55","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:07:55","slug":"18-features-windows-should-have-but-doesnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2010\/06\/02\/18-features-windows-should-have-but-doesnt\/","title":{"rendered":"18 Features Windows Should Have (But Doesn’t)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I’m still a pretty big Windows XP fan. I like the look and feel of it, and it does what I need it to do with minimal interruption. However, that doesn’t mean it is perfect. Here is an older PC World article that shares a list of features that would be good to have<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Some of the coolest OS features are nowhere to be found in Windows XP or Vista. Here are 18 brilliant features that Microsoft should beg for, borrow, or steal — plus tips on how you can add many of them to your PC now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The lists contains the following (be sure to read the article for the full details, along with suggested alternatives):<\/p>\n

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  1. Expose (Available on: Mac)<\/li>\n
  2. Virtual Workspaces (Available on: Linux, PC-BSD, Mac)<\/li>\n
  3. Back to My Mac (Available on: Mac)<\/li>\n
  4. Screen Sharing (Available on: Mac)<\/li>\n
  5. Time Machine (Available on: Mac)<\/li>\n
  6. ISO Burning (Available on: Mac, Linux, PC-BSD)<\/li>\n
  7. Stickies (Available on: Mac, Linux)<\/li>\n
  8. Podcast Capture (Available on: Mac)<\/li>\n
  9. Software Repositories (Available on: Linux, PC-BSD)<\/li>\n
  10. Desktop Cube (Available on: Linux, PC-BSD)<\/li>\n
  11. Application Dock (Available on: Mac)<\/li>\n
  12. Automated Screen Shots (Available on: Mac)<\/li>\n
  13. Multitouch Trackpad Gestures (Available on: Mac)<\/li>\n
  14. Cover Flow (Available on: Mac)<\/li>\n
  15. Pre-Installed Web Server (Available in: Mac, Linux, PC-BSD)<\/li>\n
  16. POSIX Compliance (Available on: BeOS, Mac, Linux, PC-BSD)<\/li>\n
  17. Standardized Menu Ribbon (Available on: Mac)<\/li>\n
  18. Single-File Applications (Available on: Mac)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I’m still a pretty big Windows XP fan. I like the look and feel of it, and it does what I need it to do with minimal interruption. However, that doesn’t mean it is perfect. Here is an older PC World article that shares a list of features that would be good to have: Some …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[216,228,222,214,225,219,226,108,224,194,213,227,221,223,217,220,218,215,91,94],"class_list":{"0":"post-1698","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-software-tips","7":"tag-back-to-my-mac","8":"tag-beos","9":"tag-dock","10":"tag-expose","11":"tag-features","12":"tag-iso-burning","13":"tag-linux","14":"tag-mac","15":"tag-menu","16":"tag-pc","17":"tag-pc-world","18":"tag-pc-msd","19":"tag-podcast","20":"tag-posix","21":"tag-screen-sharing","22":"tag-stickies","23":"tag-time-machine","24":"tag-virtual-workspaces","25":"tag-windows-vista","26":"tag-windows-xp","27":"anons"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}