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Windows Longhorn Screenshots Available Online

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the because-bill-says-so dept.

The Fred writes "I found this website that seems to have screenshots for the next version of windows. Everything from a new start button, extended task bar, display options, .NET capability, and a bigger clock." Fair number of UI changes, some good, mostly irrelevant, but it's interesting. Wonder if it's real.

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  1. Fake by Zeinfeld · · Score: 3, Flamebait
    Before following the mirrors thread too far note that the few people to have seen the shots appear to think they are fake.

    I finaly got them up, they are clearly fake and the folk saying 'it looks more like Mac' are clearly speaking through their trousers.

    The screenshots look like Windows XP with a very small number of minor tweaks, a new clock and some bars showing how much of the disk is used. Both look like something you could add with photoshop. The main way they make it look different is that they put the menu bar at the side of the screen - the way most Microsofties seem to do. It actually does seem to work better on the side but I don't think the usability folk would move it. But the bar is clearly fake because it duplicates the functions already there in the start bar, you can drag and drop shortcuts to applications and use them as quicklaunch buttons already. Microsoft conceal this feature from ordinary users by describing it in the manual.

    Other indications that scream fake include the fact that most of the shots come up 'XP Professional'. I have never seen a Microsoft beta that mentioned or used the codename. Longhorn would be NT7 (2000 is NT5, XP is NT6). The most likely name for Longhorn would be Windows.NET

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  2. Plex by langed · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    They called the theme Plex.

    How very Microsoftian. Name something of theirs after an OSS project. I can see it already. Tomorrow there'll be an article about how Microsoft is suing the Plex86 people for trademark infringement.

    Hey, nothing's too low when it comes to M$...

  3. Re:But I am a victim by Frank+of+Earth · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Microsoft gets my money without my consent. This is robery -- they are stealing from me.

    Supply and Demand 101. If there was a market for laptops with no OS, someone would be selling them. Nobody, meaning the majority of laptop buyers, wants to buy a system with no OS.

    MS is stealing from me? I would imagine that we steal from MS much much much more than they have ever "stole" from us.

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