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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. more by __aajelt3877 · · Score: 5, Informative

    XBetas has some.

  3. 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
  4. 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

  5. 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.