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New Longhorn Screenshots Leaked

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the unavoidable-future-of-the-desktop dept.

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. "

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  1. open source and microsoft by a1g0rithm · · Score: 0, Troll

    i would be interested in viewing the source code to the new ui and see how much it has in common with the gpl'ed kde interface... hmm, suprisingly similar in the crystal-like theme, trans taskbar, windows, and more... but i guess they don't have to worry about getting caught since their source is locked up tighter that fort knox... (i guess it is to keep their os code so security minded, hmmm, right.)

  2. Re:Wrong direction by SpamJunkie · · Score: 0, Troll

    "User interface within Windows has been at acceptable to good levels since Windows 95. They aren't going to win any more of the desktop market by making it look fancier. Microsoft should instead be focusing completely on security, performance, interoperability, stability, and flexibility"

    Microsoft has a lot of money, you understand that? They can afford to employ designers to work on UI while programmers work on security and such at the same time. It's not like they can tell the icon artist to start writing secure C++ so why not improve the UI? Until it's perfect they might as well improve it.

    Also when you say, "They aren't going to win any more of the desktop," then later, "When the big kids talk about "stability", they mean that a server" you're talking about two different things: the desktop and the server. What's the problem?

    Please, mod this troll down.

  3. Re:That's some hardware it's running on by MisterFancypants · · Score: 0, Troll
    Now that sound more like what a Microsoft developer would type in...

    Yeah well except for the fact that these are prototype screenshots put together by UI and graphic designers, not developers. You dipshit.

  4. Foghorn Leghorn Longhorn by Un+pobre+guey · · Score: 0, Troll
    That's a... ah say that's a joke, son.

    Or is it? Search this article for "Oracle."

  5. Re:Huh? by The+Bungi · · Score: 0, Troll
    I have this nagging suspicion that you've never written a single line of code in your life.

    It may be because you seem to think that software, when developed the way you consider "righteous" is perfect, and anything else will have bugs because it's not developed (or sold, marketed, etc) the "right" way.

    Oh, and your analogy sucks.