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Windows Longhorn Screenshots Available Online
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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Since its as slow as windows is heres the mirrors they list on the page with all the graphics (huh?) http://www.icrontic.com/modules.php?op=modload&nam e=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=112&pa ge=1
f ile=article&sid=358&mode=&order=0&thol d=0
http://www.tech-critic.com/modules.php?name=News&
but they slow as well...
You just got to love google!
Those screenshots are fake! Look at the name in the background.
- "Windows Longhorn XP"? Microsoft always use names like "Windows Longhorn ".
- Look at the expiration date. A beta that lasts for a year? Impossible.
- "MSN Messenger 5.0" in the start menu. MSN Messenger has been renamed to Windows Messenger since WinXP!
XBetas has some.
The actual images are at
...where the n before the .JPG are integers from 1 to 10.
http://home.attbi.com/~mrwatchdawg_01/n.JPG
"Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it." -- Linus Torvalds
well, someone told me you can find it at http://dreamsource.de/pics/chickpics/pages/417.htm
Yes, Microsoft's UI looks nice. Yes, Microsoft's UI's have looked nice since Windows Chicago Beta 1. The problem is that they don't do enough to the underlying structure to make the OS stable. My Slackware box, kludged together after the original install by upgrading without really following stuff out has had its shell in X running for about ninety days now without any problems. I have the Aqua-like themes for GTK and Sawfish running, and the thing is just sweet as can be in that regard.
I've never had Microsoft OSes, even 2000 or NT, remain up this long, when used as a userland machine.
*smile* I actually encourage Microsoft to continue to write new OSes, every year or two. This causes there to be no less than EIGHT 32bit Microsoft OSes actively in use, from those still running Windows 95 all the way through this new encantation, and with this much fragmentation, it'll only help to cause more and more strife, market confusion, broken 'standards', and non-upgrading by corporations and individuals, which has a significant chance of ultimately being what does Redmond in, rather than weak anti-trust enforcement and lack of acknowledgement by the community at large of the weaknesses of Microsoft's products (viruses, exploits, etc).
IBM had PL/1, with syntax worse than JOSS,
And everywhere the language went, it was a total loss...
http://www.wininformant.com/Articles/Index.cfm?Art icleID=27038
/. is linking to; however, the screenshots from Winbeta are REAL.
Here's the Visual Style, ripped from the beta: http://plex.ike.bz/10.24.02.PlexXP.v.0.7.1.zip
There's even a movie of Longhorn being used...the #winbeta guys have it if you want to see it. Basically, it's WinXP with a new theme ("Plex") and a new filesystem ("WinFS," which everyone turns off because apparently it eats the CPU).
By the way:
"c) This is a BIG giveaway all over the place... The current user settings have font smoothing set to anti-alias, not cleartype or none. Anti-alias text does not come into play for small fonts including 8pt (as can be seen on dektop icons, start bar, etc). However, the new bar on the right IS anti-aliasing these fonts and not only that, but it's not using font hinting (aligning the text to the nearest pixel) which is standard for cleartype or anti-aliasing... it's fake text drawn in a graphics package."
Wrong--I'm running Sideshow, and it always smooths the fonts like that, whether Cleartype is on or not. I can't get to the site
Major changes I noticed, besides the new theme and Sideshow, is the new Display Properties dialog and a My Hardware dialog. Other than that, this look like what it is--a really early alpha leak for something not due out for another couple of years.
This is actually somewhat old news...I've been running Sideshow on my XP box with the ripped Plex theme for a week now. Visit #winbeta sometime. Sideshow's neat once you figure out how to add new tickets.
She freaked out because the photographer wouldn't stop taking pictures of her kid.
Most the time photographers do that to get a rise out of a star to get the pictures of them freaking out.
OpenDoc? Wasn't that some completely random bit of Apple internetty type technology that flew about as well as a lead penguin?
:) Or did I get confused about OpenDoc?
Surely Kaleidoscope (www.kaleidoscope.net) is what you mean
Hmmm, I seem to remember posting something like this a few days back: it *still* looks as chunky and uninspiring as Windows always has done. I mean, come *on*! It's just so ugly. And what's with all those damn colours everywhere? Even Apple keeps window title bars neutral. Eugh.
People who are used to Windows who design things almost invariably come up with Windows-looking things. I have yet to see a skin for Windows (or Gnome, etc, etc) that actually looks like not-windows.
- Oliver
The right to bear arms is only slightly less stupid than the right to arm bears...
That is just not true. Early XP Betas were "Codename Whistler", and titled as such in the startup screen.