5. Allow power-users to reliably disable telemetry and "helpful" web-integration. I want to search my hard drive, not the internet. If I wanted to do that, I'd actually open a web-browser.
The rest of your points are good, but I love this one the best. Because Apple has now done the same thing, Spotlight searches now go to the Internet by default.
http://i.imgur.com/k7CQTim.png
Seems fine to me? ;)
(hit start, start searching for something, gear on the left.)
`edit` doesn't even support syntax highlighting (atleast, out of the box when I tried it).