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Longhorn Preview
itraor writes "PC World has previewed Longhorn, not the first one out I guess. Among the few noted features is that Windows now offers translucent UI, finally catching up with Apple. "
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...in 3 to 5 more years.
Zing!
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man: no entry for woman in the manual.
"Qua!?"
Hmmm...more & more like Copeland evey day...
Really, finally, a transparent UI you can be bored with in 10 minutes and put back to being opaque. Such innovation!
-Jesse
Nothing says "unprofessional job" like wrinkles in your duct tape.
For a second, I read "Longhorn Preview Infected in 12 Minutes".
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Loose spelling, poor grammar, and lots of trolling. Oh, itraor, if only you had linked to your own in-depth analysis on your blog, you would have had the Slashdot Superfecta.
Better luck next time.
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> Really, finally, a transparent UI you can be bored with in 10
> minutes and put back to being opaque. Such innovation!
Maybe, but luckily your boredom will be cured two minutes after that.
Insert simplistic political, ideological, or personal proselytization here.
"Finally catching up with Apple" is a sentence fragment. Please consider revising.
Microsoft, as part of its goal of cutting down Slashdot dupes, has decided to ship Longhorn pre-infected. Don't worry about it.
Where were you when the voynix came?
If they're truly copying Apple, it will be offloaded to the GPU. Chances are though it's a cheap microsoft replica, and you are correct it will gobble up CPU, but hey, isn't that exactly what new versions of Windows are for?
*ducks*
You know, if this happened, they might actaully turn a profit! See this alternate-reality business page to find out what this would be like. Imagine if Apple made a device called an "ipod" and made money on it. Pretty far fetched, huh? As for me, I'm sticking to 8-tracks. This "ipod" idea is pure scifi.
'Microsoft likes to make profits. Apple only recently started following that business model.'
Yes, Apple has never turned a profit. This is why they are hardly hanging in there, and have been pretty much wiped out in the computer arena by Exidy, Commodore, and Atari.
Where were you when the voynix came?
I'm sure you've made a valid point. However, I can't quite read it. I've set my browser window to 100% translucent, and I can't for the love of anything actually see it. So I'm typing at keys randomly in the hope that I undo what I did....
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Use my link above, or to view my server, NeoThermic.com
Does this mean we will get a translucent "Screen of Death" superimposed over the crashed OS screen, instead of the solid-blue one? Just one step toward the "Invisible Screen of Death".
Where were you when the voynix came?
will Longhorn support transparent screens?
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http://www.flickr.com/groups/transparentscreens/p
They will integrate Windows Longhorn in a new product called: "Photosoft". The previous success of Win2K Transparency and the current Longhorn Transluceny technology will help Adobe to improve their Layer Transparency and the Gausian Blur Plug-in. There are rumours that, by this buyout, Adobe plans going on the operating system market devastated by a bunch of ugly operating systems.
Linus the Longhorned Leopard!
Wonder what nature of children's book that would spawn...
I use XP at work, but in classic UI mode because it's the only way to not want to gouge my eyes out. Seeing the Longhorn screenshots reminds me of something going on in the nicer neighborhood a few blocks from my house.
There's a really working class guy who made good running a car repair shop. They've got a great reputation and do solid work. So he's moved into an upscale neighborhood, bought an older house that needed some work, and he's fixed it up. But he didn't just relandscape and update the paint job, he is seriously pimping it out. It's all very nicely done and high quality, but it's done with no eye for aesthetics. If a three tier $4500 marble fountain with an 8 foot radius is good, then four of them in a front yard that's 50 feet wide is even better!
From what I hear the inside is pretty much the same concept.
That's what these screenshots make me think of.
this is getting old and so are you
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I don't remember the last time microsoft showed ANY innovation of its own. anyone?
Clippy?
I don't need a signature.
It reads better in the original Klingon.
Oh no, if Bill Gates reads this, somebody will get fired ;-)
Condemnant quod non intellegunt.
if it were up to me I'd concentrate more on building a GUI where you can change the monitor resolution to the resolution you want when you want it on arbitrary systems, without having to ever edit a file named "XF86Config".
Oh, we solved that already. It's called xorg.conf now.
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They didn't even get the eye candy right. Look at those folders, they're sideways. Things fall out of real folders when you put them like that. Is the idea of a folder is to make the abstraction of a filesystem directory more concrete to the user, or is it just supposed to look "neat"?
No, I don't want to explore the Recycle Bin.
They got rid of my favourite feature, the scrollbar in the start menu. What the hell!
But I must admit, the 320x240 icons and the 2-inch status bars on each window... magnific!