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"Longhorn" Alpha Preview

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the stuff-to-read dept.

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!

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  1. Yeah, right by I+Am+The+Owl · · Score: 1, Redundant
    I'll bet this is just as much of a hoax as the last shots posted on Slashdot. And those weren't done too well either.

    I guess the comments in the first article provided aspiring Photoshoppers with enough feedback on their mistakes to not repeat them for the second posting on Slashdot.

    Seriously, just look at those screenshots. It looks just like the last hoax (the big clock, the same background, etc.), it just looks like they fixed some of the more glaring errors from last time (like the poorly-blended window-close buttons and the nonsensical Internet Explorer copyright screen).

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  2. Re: Not that new... by Black+Parrot · · Score: 1, Redundant


    > The "Sidebar" seems (functionally) very much like The Dock in MacOS X.

    There they go innovating again...

    Looks like a candy-assed version of the way I've had my GNOME panels (note plural) set up since GNOME 1.4 came out.

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  3. Re: Longhorn by Black+Parrot · · Score: 1, Redundant


    > I'm sick of linux people being elitists. Its like they wont admit there is some stuff windows does better than linux. Fact is for games and multimedia windows is the system.

    That isn't something Windows does better, that's something that application writers don't port to other OSes.

    It's a sign of Windows being a monopoly, not of it being better.

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