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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. Mirror by AmigaAvenger · · Score: 5, Informative
    Here's a mirror, the other one already had the screen shots yanked, by microsoft.

    TechCritic

    1. Re:Mirror by AmigaAvenger · · Score: 5, Informative
      Oops, almost forgot my own mirror!

      Longhorn PDF dump of original

  2. Fake by FooBarWidget · · Score: 3, Informative

    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!

    1. Re:Fake by alexburke · · Score: 3, Informative

      Longhorn would be NT7 (2000 is NT5, XP is NT6). The most likely name for Longhorn would be Windows.NET

      Oh boy, where do I start?

      Windows 2000 is Windows NT 5.0.
      Windows XP is Windows NT 5.1. (Look at the System Control Panel of an XP box sometime.)
      Windows .NET Server RC1 is Windows NT 5.2, build 3663. I know this because I run it on one of my boxes (I have an MSDN subscription).

      It makes sense, then, that Longhorn will be Windows NT 5.3 or more likely 6.0.

  3. more by __aajelt3877 · · Score: 5, Informative

    XBetas has some.

  4. Links to actual images by Xpilot · · Score: 5, Informative

    The actual images are at

    http://home.attbi.com/~mrwatchdawg_01/n.JPG ...where the n before the .JPG are integers from 1 to 10.

    --
    "Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it." -- Linus Torvalds
  5. Re:bluejeans.jpg by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    well, someone told me you can find it at http://dreamsource.de/pics/chickpics/pages/417.htm

  6. Winbeta's screenshots are real by bonch · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.wininformant.com/Articles/Index.cfm?Art icleID=27038

    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 /. is linking to; however, the screenshots from Winbeta are REAL.

    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.

  7. Re:corollary to the law of software envelopment by Huge+Pi+Removal · · Score: 3, Informative

    OpenDoc? Wasn't that some completely random bit of Apple internetty type technology that flew about as well as a lead penguin?

    Surely Kaleidoscope (www.kaleidoscope.net) is what you mean :) Or did I get confused about OpenDoc?

    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...
  8. Re:Reason why it is fake by cmallinson · · Score: 3, Informative
    They would say Windows Longhorn. Microsoft has never used the word "Codename" in any documentation nor in any releases in the past. Therefore it is faked.

    That is just not true. Early XP Betas were "Codename Whistler", and titled as such in the startup screen.