Wishlist for MS Windows enhancements

So, we're all waiting for the upcoming Windows Longhorn right? Although we've seen previews here and there, I don't think most of us would upgrade to it as soon as it's out (I wouldn't till I know for sure that it's the right thing to do - both security and stability wise). Mind you, Windows XP SP2 is the most stable and secured operating system from the Microsoft shop till date. Anyways, my point is that for those of us who will be using Windows XP for about 2 to 3 more years from now, I think that apart from security enhancements, there are a few things that might help make the OS more user friendly. Some of those have already been done in the SP2 but more can be done. Here's my wishlist for bettering the Windows OS.

• tabbed browsing: this is something I wished I had in IE for years. Many people don't use IE because of security reasons. Although this is the same for me, another main reason why I do not use IE is because I don't want to have 10 different windows opened when am doing a search on google and reading through my results. I mean seriously, the strangest thing is that Microsoft is known or trying to be known (you guys can decide whichever it is) as one of the most innovative tech company in the IT world. But strangely enough, it hasn't been so for a while. I have observed that they only come up with new stuff in their products, only months or years after some other people have implemented it right from the start. A simple example is the fact that "Safari", "Mozilla Firefox" and a few well known browsers out there came up straight with features like tabbed-browsing and popup-blockers. For a long time, third party pluggins had to be bought or downloaded to protect IE users from popups (this has been solved with SP2) but this is still not the case for tabbed-browsing. Would microsoft ever come up with a browser that offers tabbed-browsing? I hope they do (IE version 7 is on the way, let's see what they do with it).
• Easier and enhanced transfer of files between MSN Messenger users. Have you ever tried to transfer a file to someone who's behind a firewall using MSN? It just doesn't work! And believe it or not, most of us guys are behind firewalls. Yahoo has solved this problems a long time ago: when one tries to transfer a file to another Yahoo messenger buddy who's behind a firewall, the application lets you know that your buddy is behind a firewall and cannot receive the file directly from you. It then proposes that you upload the file to a yahoo file server and once this is done, the link is displayed on the messenger of your buddy who just has to click on an HTTP link to get the file downloaded to his computer. HTTP being run commonly on port 80, most firewalls let users access those files without a problem. Even such a feature doesn't appear to be in the latest version 7 of MSN Messenger. Will this ever be implemented? Let's wait and see.
• Access to compilers, make tools and so on directly included in the OS distribution. OK, I know that there is a very small percentage of people who would actually need this in the Windows OS. But like they do with IIS, why wouldn't they allow us after installing Windows to choose "developers' tools" as an optional installation package? Think about it this way, most operating systems (even Apple's OS X) are delivered out of the box as a developer's operating sytem. Meaning that all these tools are hidden from the "average user" but if you do need them, intall them from the optional packages CD, open the terminal and off you go compiling and doing whatever you want to do. In short, you get access to startup / full developers tools without having to buy or spend about 2 or 3 days searching on google for those and all of this without spending more money than you did to buy the OS package. Will we ever get the chance to have something like this with MS Windows?

There are probably a few more things you guys out there can think about to make MS Windows a better / user friendly OS. For me, the list stops here (for the moment).