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.

Comments

Pathetic.

[Klerck]

It's ALREADY slashdotted. Can't we do something about this? Couldn't they have hosted the shots on the slashdot server?

Longhorn BSOD

[xjimhb]

The truly important issue is what will the Longhorn Blue Screen of Death look like? After all, that's what most people will be seeing most of the time!

If you're having...

[SPYvSPY]

...a hard time seeing the Longhorn screenshots, you can get the gist by checking out the OS X page.

Re:Windows Longhorn is a true usability nightmare

[theCoder]

It's called a double standard. Apple, and to a lesser extent Microsoft, can do no wrong when it comes to GUIs while Linux will never be ready for the desktop. Mostly it's a lot of BS and certainly not as black and white as that. "Usability" is a stupid term anyway since it relies exclusively on the individual using it (though there are some designs that everyone will find unusable and potentially some that everyone will find usable). The best "usability" solution in my opinion is one that can be customized to how any user wants to use it. Not pretty eye candy (even if it does look nice). Too bad pretty eye candy (and its screenshots) sells and customizability doesn't (at least not as well).

Oh, well. As long as I can still use Linux, I'm happy :)

Re:pre-emptive /.ing?

[Uruk]

Its just a preview of a future far off OS that you dont even have to use in the frist place.

Are you sure about that? I'm not trying to tell you that the sky is falling, but it might make sense that Palladium would be shipped with Longhorn for the first time. If the palladium architecture actually gets put in place, it might rapidly become very difficult to use free operating systems. Oh sure, they'd work just fine - as long as you're not concerned with interoperating with those who do choose to use proprietary software.