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Windows Vista Leaks ... Again!
10101001011 writes "The latest build of Windows Vista (5231) has been leaked to the public, again. This latest build includes some major revamping of Windows Media Player, including a smart interface. Also, IE 7 now sports tabs a la Firefox, under the address bar. Are these leaks accidental, or is Microsoft actually trying to pull a 360?"
I find it interesting that it is "leaked" the same day as Ubuntu "Breezy Badger" 5.10. Is MS trying to subvert its toughest FOSS competitor?
Any idea which of the several versions leaked?
If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
That looks like a hollywood starlet out to gain some cheap publicity by leaking news of her latest breast enhancement
Yes you heard it here first folks. Continuing the proud tradition of security first we at Microsoft have implimented new Sieve Security Technology (tm) throughout our systems. Now, as well as producing the most bug ridden insecure operating system around, we can't even keep hold of the software before it is written.
I used to have a better sig but it broke.
Ooops, I did it again. Steve Balmer.
Does that mean it's full of holes?
*rimshot*
Sparks:Gadget:Beer Maker
So, the screenshots feature:
* WMP with "not a usability nightmare" theme applied
* A volume meter
* Stuff we've seen in previous betas
Wow! This leak has convinced me, I'm upgrading!
Perhaps they will rely upon their usual method of security ..... "damn, it just crashed my machine."
Turns out it's just screenshots of some guy's desktop with a fancy wallpaper.
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
What good is a leak. If nobody wants it?
"I used to have that really cool,funny sig
More importantly, does the keygen come with cool music?
In a company that big nothing happens by mistake or as an accident.
Everything is to be planned and carefully prepared (maybe also bugs!) accordingly to precise roadmaps.
For example, they need to show Vista is not vapourware, while not really being able (or willing) to release a beta or a RC. So the leak!
It seems strange this can be true, but otherwise such a "distract and lazy" company should have sinked long time ago!
Maybe Computers will never be as intelligent as Humans.
For sure they won't ever become so stupid. [VR-1988]
Yes, Vista has a new UI... but you should not forget about the backend things that have been done... two of my favorites are the new networking stack and the audio stack being brought into user land... what does that mean? Application level audio control! You will be able to raise the volume for the movie you are watching (that was no doubt ripped from a DVD and has low volume) and not go deaf when someone IM's you.
Wow, so they did something about safety after all! Amazing!
-- Cheers!
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"What does it mean when MS creates a "smart" interface?"
Roughly translated it means... "Virus runtime included!"
"that same inertia will probably carry you forward." Can I hang that on my wall?
jh
The complaint is that a word that originally meant "with hope" is instead being used as a substitute for "I hope".
There becomes a confusion when I write:
"Hopefully, he left on Tuesday"
Do I mean that I hope he left on Tuesday, or that he had hope when he left on Tuesday? It should mean the latter but in common use it's starting to instead mean the former.
I wouldn't worry about it too much as languages have always been fluid and the relatively new usage isn't entirely unintuitive except in very rare circumstances like the one I outline above.
Hopefully, you understand what I mean.
erroneous: look me up in a dictionary
Actually my grad program is in Divinity (theology). I just don't have the time to make the switch over to Linux yet. But I will probably this summer.
xao
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"How many of your relatives know what Linux is? How many of them know what Windows is?" You have to remember to whom you're speaking to. This is Slashdot. Half these dorks probably come over to their relatives for Thanksgiving dinner in penguin costumes handing out free OSS CDs.
Seriously. I'm so damn tired of developers adding features to software. If I wanted my computer to do things for me... wait, I forgot my point.
Slashdot - where whining about luck is the new way to make the world you want.
If the leaks aren't accidental, then why is one of the MSN messenger users displayed in the screenshots as "Ryan | Topside Porn..."
Is M$ getting into the porn business as well? Maybe a Windows Vista Porn Edition is in the works, and Ryan is on the dev team? It could have features like the 'boss button,' racy desktop themes, and it could arrive in your mailbox in a non-descript paper bag....
On the neowin.net message board, Raum says:I jsut thought I should mention this.the guy in the IM on some of the shots who's name is topside pornstar or whatnot.That's a grind in rollerblading. Just some trivia.
I think my explanation is more realistic - everybody knows that only Google developers get to rollerblade.
No, it means that the same purple "visualization" that everybody has adored for so many years is back again to provide us with musical experiences enhanced beyond our wildess dreams.
It is right there, featured centrally in screen shot 1; be happy.
you go to hogwarts????
It means the interface *knows* more than you and therefore will never allow you to do what you want it to - even if its correct.
"smart" meaning that it decides for you what it wants you to want to do and throws up three confirm boxes if you want to do what you actually want to do, finally blue screening after you clicked ok in all three.
If you don't risk failure you don't risk success.
"180, you stupid, spaghetti-slurping cretin - 180! If I did a 360, I'd go completely around and end up back where I started!"
You must think in Russian.
Windows Vista(tm), the only operating system that fully leverages Microsoft's patented VRE* technology!
* Virus Runtime Engine
They put a wrapper over iTunes?
The Independent: Reverend Spooner Arrested in Friar Tuck Incident - ISIHAC, Historical Headlines
In one of the screenshots it clearly shows that the guy only has 2 gigs of RAM. Isn't Vista supposed to require 2TB of Carbon-Nanotube RAM and a Quantum processor?
Clearly these are fakes.
Since I can't tell them apart, I treat all ACs as the same person.
That's RED screening, you insensitive clod!