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New Longhorn Screenshots Leaked
Badgerguy writes "The Supersite for Windows has some shiney-blue looking leaked screenshots of LongHorn. The new screenshots of the 'Aero' interface mainly seem to be concerned with Digital Media integration - which has become deeper still. A new 'SyncManager' screenshot is up there (copying of iSync?) as well as some pictures of LongHorn prototype hardware, which looks like a cross between a desktop PC / Notebook / Tablet PC. "
For me to POOP ON!!!!!!!! :p
Abaddon: An Xbox 360 Indie game
**For the Windows users that are going to inevitably say "Well my XP box never crashed and I don't have to reboot for a week! I play mad gamez and it stays good! So it's stable, you are just a open source zealot!", just shut up. When the big kids talk about "stability", they mean that a server remains stable indefinately while performing multiple critical tasks. Funny thing is you sound like a bigger ass then anyone who would of probably said that.
Tell me about it. Hell, the default XP interface is too damn "cute and fluffy" as it is. Give me something where I don't have a paper-clip, dog, cat, little Einstein, or whatever trying to help me or randomly appearing on my screen and let me get on with my work. I had to spend some time changing the base appearance and disabling "features", just so I could get to something I could work with.
Kierthos
Mr. Hu is not a ninja.
I take it you are one of those linux-fanbois who still think Windows means Windows 95 first edition. XP is a damn robust system that is easy to use, Windows 2003 server is even better and I have no doubt that Longhorn will be a further improvement.
BOO! TERRO
The Server version is WORMWOOD.
Honestly, after a week like this last one - with smoking hulks of business LANs built on Win2K - who really gives a damn for this crap?
Unmitigated GARBAGE, with built in spyware and governance mechanisms.
MS is bulding the Winston Smith Victory computer. Look the other way.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
I don't understand all this WinME bashing. I've used it for years and it's worked well. no major problems. previous to ME I was running 98se. when I switched to ME my startup time went from a couple of minutes to 40-something seconds so I was instantly pleased and since then there hasn't been anything to worry about, which is how an OS should work imo.
for some reason people act like ME is a million times worse than 98/95 and it's just pathetic. I'm sure most of you only do it because everyone else does.
I always try out new linux distros and currently have SuSE 8.2. but none have been sufficently good to make me give up ME altogether. and if you want to bitch about bugs, I see far far more in linux than WinME.
I hate many aspects of MS and don't like defending them, but in this case I'd rather side with them than a group of ignorant self-righteous arrogant pricks. this isn't aimed specifically at the parent author, but those who have attitudes like WinME being particularly evil are just as bad as those who think the same about linux.
Hehe, I can tell you don't say it out of experience ;) I've used Macs at a friends house, most versions of MacOS including betas and such that aren't out yet (he's a mac nut). I don't find it terribly intuitive at times. Example - how do you stop the dock from zooming in and out? "Right click" on it? No. Control panel? Don't think so. It's just thrown into the Apple menu, woo, intuitive. How about the annoying and confusing Dock, which is a jack of all trades but master of none? Try clicking on a broken X11 app link some time. Does it tell you it's broken? No - it just fades in a nice question mark. Of course if you don't know what that means, or cannot guess, you're screwed. It "Just Doesn't Work".
There are lots of little things like that, that in my opinion make an OS that is pretty straightforward and predictable, and make you think that they don't care about sacrificing usability for looks and whizzy fade ins.
everything is placed in a tree-like heirarchy that is easier (compared to Windows' interface) to find things in
Well, most usability guides I've read say that trees aren't intuitive, but whatever, there aren't many in MacOS by default anyway. OTOH Windows places far more in the tree/heirarchy namespace than the Mac does - for instance, you cannot browse the control panel applets in the finder. You have to use the control panel program.
Their changing the interface only makes it worse and bloated.....
You're entitled to your opinion of course, but almost every revision of MacOS X has changed the interface to some extent, including introducing a brand new, arbitrarily applied theme, redesigning the finder, new task switching mechanisms and so on. There is no classic mode, you just have to hope you like the new changes or somebody produces a hack to set things back the way they were (a booming industry it seems).
And Ford cars are crap, you see?