In June, Microsoft will release its next big update to Windows 8 called Windows Blue.
With this update, Microsoft will hopefully fix a lot of things that have annoyed people about Microsoft's new touch-friendly operating system.
A lot is riding on this. Windows 8 has been widely criticized as being too hard to learn. One report after another has shown that initial demand has not been good for new Windows 8 devices, including Microsoft's own Surface tablets.
But Microsoft still has a chance to bounce back, just like it bounced back from the poorly recieved Vista version of Windows when it launched Windows 7.
To do that, it needs to fix a lot of important, and sometimes basic, things with Windows 8.
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Boot to desktop mode on laptops and regular desktop computers
Windows 8 should be able to detect if the software is running on a tablet with a touchscreen or a laptop/desktop without one.
If there's no touchscreen, it should default to the Desktop Mode, which looks like Windows 7.
Plus, it should allow everyone to choose which mode to boot into by default, Windows 8 (Start Screen) or Desktop (Windows 7).
Bring back the Start button
Really, Microsoft, why fight this anymore?
Desktop mode is basically a faster version of Windows 7 without the Start button, and users have been grumbling about its loss the whole time.
Why make people relearn things like how to turn the computer off?
Of course, if Microsoft doesn't bring back the Start button, people can still add it from a third-party tool like Classic Shell.
Adjustable Charm bar
The Charm Bar is a menu in Windows 8 that lets you perform basic tasks for every app like searching or sharing. It swipes over from the right side of your screen.
We hope Microsoft will let users be able to move the Charm bar around and dock it in another spot or make it permanently visible, and pin the Search, Share, or other Charms to their Start menus if they want to.
By parking the Charms menu on the right side, Windows 8 eliminates common sense gestures like being able to swipe both directions to get to open apps.
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