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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 Fake Fake :) by dark-br · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The screenshots are fake for the following reasons (this is XP with a custom theme and then some hacking around in an image editor)...

    For the Setup screen...

    a) In the window, horizontal bar at the top doesn't meet the right hand side.
    b) Alpha plane gone on setup icon (definitely would NOT happen to one icon and not others).
    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.

    The sidebar as startmenu screen...
    d) Looks nice, but examine the desktop images... no windows in the first one... later on they have images of the windows!

    Sidebar on the right...
    e) Where did the windows in the desktop image come from in this one ?
    f) Aren't those icons on the bar a bit big compared with the later bars?

    Display Properties screen (oh my god)...
    g) Nice text antialiasing again (hmm)
    h) 'You can change the image that appears on your windo...' ooops. Clipped that text a bit. Note this can't happen with the windows API when you have a multi-line text field (using TextOut, etc). Hmm... minor cockup
    i) Ah my windows are back in the desktop images (on the sidebar), but now the current window is bigger with a black splodge at the bottom.

    My Computer screen...
    j) Love the antialiasing on the left, but not in the middle... nice.
    k) How fake are the section buttons on the left hand side? Come on guys... you can't flip images horizontally... MS insist on a top left light source. Oh, and your button with the shadow should either have an alpha plane or not... don't do half a job... it really doens't look real.

    My Documents...
    l) Oooh, Oooh, an anti-aliased dropdown. Fake Fake Fake.

    My Pictures..
    m) Nice... what happened to Burn CD though? Have MS dropped it now they support DVD burning?
    n) Oops, you should have removed the LH.bmp from your My Pictures. Remember you only used it to create the backgroud.

    DOS Setup
    o) Love it... now your just taking the piss. How did you get the screenshot??? and the 'install Windows Longhorn 2004 using DOS 1985' is excelent. Very funny :-D
    p) The URL is superb. ROTFLMAO.

    So...

    Nice theming... love the sidebar, good use of blending in your graphics package, but FAKE FAKE FAKE.

    Great for a laugh though. :-D