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"Longhorn" Alpha Preview
An anonymous reader submitted an actual review of the leaked Longhorn Alpha. Finally someone has provided us with more than a few screenshots. Here's your chance to see what the future of the microsoft desktop is gonna look like!
> So, (as I've said before) besides the systray, task bar buttons, icons on the desktop and the start menu we have *another* way to "quickly" get to applications and documents?
They're trying to make it Touring Complete.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
He's at 4 now. Maybe your good luck helped him! :)
Everyone else has already had a few words with you, but I'd like to point something else out that's probably the source of your problems...
I have stopped counting the times that I've had to reboot my Jaguar workstation in the school's art lab after it failed to handle some bizarre error in Classic environment.
No offense, dude, but it's probably an asinine machine lockdown policy in place. The system probably has some extra stuff installed to prevent you from doing this, that, or the other thing, and as a result, things are going to break. The admins at my school obviously don't know what the hell they're doing with the Macs - They have authentication with the school financial system on login now (to charge for printouts), and the little lame script and stuff they set up takes login time from two seconds to at least two minutes. No exaggeration here.
They're so anal about keeping things locked down that they *taped up the Zip drives* on the Power Macs. I guess they didn't want anyone copying software off the system, or running any apps. Never mind that someone could just as easily do it on the Dells that are far more prolific in the lab...
In short, don't pass judgment on an operating system based on *one* person's deployment of it in a specific environment.
"Mod, mod, mod...and another troll bites the dust."
"...it's eating more and more of my valuable screen estate..."
I thought the same thing. I run at 1600x1200 at home, and once upon a time that seemed like a lot. But at work my monitors are a few years newer, and I'm able to drive them at something like 2048x1536. I quickly got used to the higher rez, and really began to appreciate mozilla's font scaling(sp?).
And mozilla's font scaling makes me think that for a lot of windows, instead of minimizing, I'd like to be able to zoom out or otherwise shrink them. Enough so I could still recognize and maybe even make out some text, but not take up a lot of screen space if I wasn't using that window heavily.
Anyone know if there is already something like that?