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The keyboard shotcuts still work in the "Turn Off Computer" menu. However, there is no indication of any short cuts. I just tried "R" for Restart and it worked. It would be better if the keyboard mappings were underlined to indicate that they are a short cut.

My screen space is expensive. Why do I have to throw away a few hundred pixels on the side of the folder just to be told it's name in big letters. I suspect this will be unusable at anything less than 1024 x 768.

I agree completely. It seems like all of these dialogs have some splashy graphic taking up space. The control panel screenshot scared me - where did all of the applets go? They used up most of the screen to show us 10 items. How is this an improvement? In web terms it would be better if they fixed the "content" instead of focusing on the "presentation".

The definite article is fairly obvious from the context - why waste screen space and user time on 'Shut Down *The* Computer', when it's clear that you are not shutting down any other computer?

Are you sure? What about Remote Desktop Connection? Can you be turning off/rebooting some else's computer?

I couldn't find any discussion about the remote desktop

Does anyone know anything more about it? That would be a very handy feature. Windose terminals wouldn't be a bad idea. I doubt they would have the terminal software be less then the actual software, because that would be the way of MS.

Did anyone else notice that this OS seems to take almost 1 GIG ? It must be all of those bitmaps that make this "bursting with usability".

Look at the bottom right corner of this screenshot for a nice solution to the problem of tray icon overpopulation: only the ones you use appear and the others are accessible through the "" icon. I know many windows users that have so many tray icons there is virtually no room left on the task bar. They keep downloading and installing "cool" stuff from the net and a lot of it ends up as new tray icons.

When I think of it, screen real estate is not their real problem. Windows machines with so much stuff loaded in memory are even more unstable. The first thing I do when they come screaming for help is get rid of all this junk.

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Look at the logoff image or main2 image. They're systematically removing definite and indefinite articles from the English language. It's bad enough that Microsoft has to perpetuate the infantilism of "My Computer" and "My Internet" (gimmee, gimmee, gimmee!!!). Now, it's: "Uggh! Me Tarzan! Me want 'Turn off Computer'" The grammar of America's youth is shoddy enough as it is. We don't need Barbie telling our kids, "math class is tough", and we don't need Microsoft telling them "computer" is a proper noun.

Look at the logoff image or main2 image. They're systematically removing definite and indefinite articles from the English language. It's bad enough that Microsoft has to perpetuate the infantilism of "My Computer" and "My Internet" (gimmee, gimmee, gimmee!!!). Now, it's: "Uggh! Me Tarzan! Me want 'Turn off Computer'" The grammar of America's youth is shoddy enough as it is. We don't need Barbie telling our kids, "math class is tough", and we don't need Microsoft telling them "computer" is a proper noun.

What makes me think they might be faked the most is that The start menu says Codename Whistler. but,

• The DOS prompt calls it Windows 2000 picture
• The Win2k beta said Win2k on the start menu(as I recall) picture
• The taskbar properties has Windows 20?? in the image picture

In the images defense, the build numbers appear to be the same between the different shots, and also appears in the dos.jpg. I do however doubt that the shutdown icon would have been so obviously ripped off from a Mac, although this is only an internal build. I can't comment on the technical quality of the images though.

Either way I kinda like it.
treke

What makes me think they might be faked the most is that The start menu says Codename Whistler. but,

• The DOS prompt calls it Windows 2000 picture
• The Win2k beta said Win2k on the start menu(as I recall) picture
• The taskbar properties has Windows 20?? in the image picture

In the images defense, the build numbers appear to be the same between the different shots, and also appears in the dos.jpg. I do however doubt that the shutdown icon would have been so obviously ripped off from a Mac, although this is only an internal build. I can't comment on the technical quality of the images though.

Either way I kinda like it.
treke

What makes me think they might be faked the most is that The start menu says Codename Whistler. but,

• The DOS prompt calls it Windows 2000 picture
• The Win2k beta said Win2k on the start menu(as I recall) picture
• The taskbar properties has Windows 20?? in the image picture

In the images defense, the build numbers appear to be the same between the different shots, and also appears in the dos.jpg. I do however doubt that the shutdown icon would have been so obviously ripped off from a Mac, although this is only an internal build. I can't comment on the technical quality of the images though.

Either way I kinda like it.
treke

Ok, perhaps I'm one of the 0.0003% of people who would find this funny, but take a look at http://www.m0ss.com/Images/W histler2250/mycomputer.jpg. Under "Removable Media" there is an item listed as "3-1/2-Inch Floppy D..." I don't know what immediately pops into your mind, but I wonder if this is some sort of Freudian slip on the part of Microsoft coders.

P.S. All M$ coders reading this do *not* send me pictures confirming or disconfirming my observation.

Well if you happened to actually look at all of the screenshots, you will see that the disk has 932MB taken up after windows is installed. That doesn't seem too bad to me. My Computer pic