Windows has been around for many years, and it's developed a mature feature set along the way.

Some of the features in Windows really ought to be brought over to rival operating systems.

If the future of computing is mobile, then mobile operating systems need to adopt more desktop functionality.

If there's one thing that's been an absolute constant in my life, it's Windows. My earliest memories of interacting with a computer trace back to my family's desktop PC running the much-maligned Windows ME, back in the early 2000s. While Millennium Edition itself was fairly crash prone as far as operating systems go, its basic utility was already in place.

We're all familiar with the fundamentals -- a desktop littered with program icons, a taskbar along the bottom of the screen to display currently running software, and, of course, the now-ubiquitous Start Menu. I've since ventured out and familiarized myself with competing operating systems. While I today consider myself to be platform-agnostic, I can never fully shake away the familiarity and feature set that I've come to know and rely upon with Windows over the years. Here are five features that come standard on Windows that I simply can't live without.

This one is first up on the list for good reason. The single best feature of Windows OS is its window management, which I suppose is pretty fitting. Since the launch of the legendary Windows 7 in 2009, it's been a breeze to quickly tile windows side-by side. All it takes is a simple drag of a window's title bar onto either the left or right side of the screen, and it automatically snaps into place.