Feature Requests 3

• (Above) Window Management: Hold shift between the edge of two windows, to resize both windows at the same time. This would work as long as the two windows are within a few pixels of each other. A special mouse icon would appear (while shift is held down, and mouse is over) to hint to the user they can resize both windows simultaneously.

• (Above) Inking Tools: While the Math Input Panel is truly impressive (same for the Tablet PC Input Panel, for more general handwriting recognition) and unique among operating systems (to the best of my knowledge), it is disappointing the application itself cannot solve these math expressions without third party applications - making the application not very useful for the majority of more basic users. I do understand this application is designed to recognize very complex scientific equations, so it might be out of the question to expect it to solve everything. However if it could solve relatively simple math (like screenshot above), this would be an excellent tool for everyone. Another minor problem with this application is it doesn't support the common "x" multiply symbol, you must use asterisk, and  it seems finicky about registering this symbol.

• (Above) Interface control: Add ability to switch dpi without logging out of operating system. With Windows expected to work on smaller touch compatible devices, it would be handy for users to quickly switch dpi, to get a bigger bolder interface for touch interaction.

• (Above) Start Menu: Windows 7 feature "jump lists" not available when doing a search - add this functionality.

• (Above) Start Menu: Add ability to clear all history of files, folders or internet pages of a jump list. You can currently delete each jump list history entry individually, but not globally.

• (Above) Taskbar thumbnail icons: When a user has many taskbar thumbnails icons displayed, it may be hard to find the thumbnail you want, particularly if you go away and work on something else for a while, and then quickly want to bring back an important folder, or internet page. I propose a simple system where you can tag or highlight an individual page or folder (just in a single elegant color).

• (Above) Window Management: Drag a window precisely to the edge of another window, then a special icon will appear if your mouse is in correct location, this would indicate you can join the two windows together. Once two windows are joined, any transformations on either window would result in the other window being transformed to stay attached. Image below shows the effect of two windows being attached together.

• Keyboard customization: Sophisticated options to customize all default Windows hot keys. Especially useful for users who want to learn default hot keys, or for advanced users to discover new hot keys easily.
• Media Support: Drop Windows Media Player and make Zune player the default for Windows 8. So all features WMP currently supports must also be supported in Zune. Make Zune faster on lower specification hardware, but continue to refine beautiful interface that currently exists. Make sure media scrubbing works as expected without delay. If Zune is not default then improve Windows Media Player (especially video scrubbing issue).
• Inking Tools: Windows Journal seems quite limited and the interface outdated. Maybe it could be a free more simplistic version of OneNote - same UI and workflow, but a little less functionality. Seriously OneNote quicks ass, so the more Windows Journal is like this the better.
• Preview Pane: Edit notepad and word pad files directly in Preview pane, would be very handy 
• Preview Pane: Encourage more third party developers to embrace the preview pane, and develop viewers for their proprietary file formats.
• Login: Customizable login screens or theme based login screens. Windows 7 already beats Mac OSX for visual themes, take it a step further with a beautiful set of login themes - and enable third parties to also develop these.

Features Request 2

• Inking Tools: Snipping tool with ability to constrain to square by holding down shift, or on Edit menu add option to Make Selection Square - tick either on or off.
• Inking Tools: Have ability to permanently turn off windows inking/touch icon, the little blue circular bubble that appears on click. This wrecks havoc for Wacom users and is quite annoying in general. Currently the only way to turn it off, is using device manager, and deactivitaing Wacom Virtual HID driver - something that isn't immediately obvious.
• Inking Tools: Add undo to snipping tool
• Themes: Every time you install a new aero theme, a new control panel window is created. If one is already open, then do not open another. 
• Themes: Allow multiple themes to be installed at once, in some manner. 

• (Above) Themes: Lock individual aero aspects from further changes, as you switch between aero themes - to do this right click aero aspect and choose lock. For example you could lock sounds and aero colors from future modifications.
• Hotkeys: New hot key for taking screen grabs from a particular monitor. Currently pressing "print screen" with a multiple monitor setup, will copy all of the monitors to the clipboard, this is often not desirable. Instead user could press print screen + number, relating to the monitor's ID as displayed in Control Panel > Screen Resolution. 

• (Above) Flip 3D: Add application icons to help users find application they are after. Also add large close icon to help in closing many applications quickly - particularly useful for touch interaction.

• (Above) Flip 3D: Advanced features to show tabs and windows for each application. Use minimal typography to aid in quickly gauging which applications have many tabs or windows - helping you find the one you're after. To make this system nicer the smaller icon thumbnails (representing tabs or windows) for each application could be more faded as they recede deeper in 3D space - or hidden altogether until the mouse is over the application thumbnail. Another nice feature would be able to right click these application window / tab icons and close them.

• (Above) Task Switcher: Add ability to rearrange task switcher thumbnails. This allows less alt+tabbing and alt+shift+tabbing. Because the user can organize similar applications together, or two windows they are currently working on right next to each other.

• (Above) Jumplists: Jumplists should always be available at every level of the operating system. Including while using Windows Explorer (and while searching, shown above). However i'm not sure how to implement it, the right click menu can get heavy already from lots of third party applications installing there own commands. Probably best to implement as a fly out menu, that only appears for jumplist compatible applications.
• Media support: Apple ".mov" h264 videos downloaded from Apple Trailers do not display in Windows Preview Pane, yet if you rename the file to ".m4v" extension the file works. Make Windows play these .mov h264 by default.
• Applications: Paint got quite a make over with Windows 7, take it further with Windows 8 and add basic layer support, a couple more brushes, and a more modern colour picker
• Preview Panel: Animated GIF preview support added
• Control Panel: Major unification of all control panel windows to central window, all with modern Aero theme, and absolute consistent design.
• Explorer: Ability to pause and resume file transfers
• Explorer: Add ability to consolidate file transfers into a queue. User can then choose to leave downloads as per default (to all download simultaneously), or click "Consolidate Copying to Queue", all the copying windows would then be combined, and only one transfer would be happening at a time (with a queue view showing the transfers remaining).
• Explorer: "Folder in Use" dialog says "The action can't be completed because the folder is open in another program. Close the program and try again". Problem is how do you know which application is causing this?
• Taskbar: Add functionality to allow for multiple taskbars, each with there own start menu (identical), the user could then drag and drop applications icons to differenet taskbars on different monitors, to aid in multiple monitor workflows.
• Start Menu: Thumbnail previews for search results made from start menu, hover mouse over search results to show thumbnail.
• Start Menu: Allow Start menu search to act as basic calculator
• Other: Link your entire user profile to another drive and location. Currently you can only do this for individual folders such as "My Music" and "My Documents"

Features Request 1

• Breadcrumb bar: Allow items to be dragged and dropped (moved) from main explorer panel on to breadcrumb folder. Additionally user could hold down shift before click dragging, to allow the file to be copied to folder on breadcrumb bar (rather than moved).

• Breadcrumb bar: Allow items to be dragged from main explorer panel, on to breadcrumb folders found on drop down menus for that folder. Additionally user could hold down shift before click dragging, to allow the file to be copied to folder on breadcrumb bar (rather than moved).

• Breadcrumb Bar: Allow files to be pasted on to breadcrumb folders (and sub folders found in drop down menu) by right clicking breadcrumb folder and clicking paste.

• Explorer: Add option for tabbed Explorer. With ability to drag and drop items between tabs, and also add right click menu to tabs, allowing paste. Additionally a new tab button similar to an internet browser would be handy.