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Windows Longhorn Beta Screenshots

Posted by timothy on from the rather-attractive-from-here dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A few screenshots of Windows Longhorn Beta 1 have surfaced on the net showing off many of the new transparency features, Internet Explorer 7 and Avalon or WinFX."

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  1. "Mirror" by Nine99 · · Score: 5, Informative

    The screenshots are als on http://elliottback.com/wp/archives/2005/07/09/long horn-5203-screenshots/

  2. MirrorDot by emcmanus · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://mirrordot.org/stories/38d3ca8d0f1450ecd904c fee28fb683c/index.html

  3. Re:Down already? by schestowitz · · Score: 5, Informative

    Use the mirror which runs on a sane server:

    http://www.networkmirror.com/JOdkEXG2eLXwsioX/www. flexbeta.net/main/comments.php%3Fcatid%3D1%26shown ews%3D13839.html

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  4. Re:Mirrors? by pearljam145 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Try http://mirrordot.org/stories/38d3ca8d0f1450ecd904c fee28fb683c/index.html

  5. Re:Longhorn more like Copland. by JonXP · · Score: 5, Informative

    You gotta remember, you can change a whole lot that won't come out in screenshots. A good example is the difference between the 2.4 and 2.6 kernels in linux. Vastly different, but all a screenshot will tell you is they have a different version number.

    However, 'just' a new UI and Transparancy actually required a rewrite of the presentation layer, that means most graphical programs (once they take advantage of it) will run much much faster, instead of the old fashioned GDI they used that had been around for years.

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