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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?"
Who actually started this tabbed bowsing thing? I thought Opera had tabs before Firefox?
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the leak is pointless for ms to have done, because there is a new build ctp beta 2 that is getting released next week. Anyone who installs it will just have to do the upgrade again next week, well that assuming you are part of the beta program or an msdn sub. Both of which i am.
Did no one on Slashdot go to this year's PDC?! Oh, wait...I guess that's a dumb question...Anyway, they gave out copies of Vista build 5219 to everyone who attended, and it already had tabbed browsing in IE7. Why are people making such a big deal about this now?
Ultimate Edition, as it says on the page with the screenshots (you will see this if you click on TFA).
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I hope that some day people will use the word "hopefully" correctly.
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This latest build includes some major revamping of Windows Media Player, including a smart interface.
This smart interface seems, from the images, to be a simplification and cruft-removal exercise. A good idea, I feel.
Also, notice the place where the Avatar should be in MSN:
To see this dynamic display picture, you need the latest version of Macromedia flash player
*shudder*
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The original seems to be very slow now.
um...we've known about the tabbed browsing in IE7 for several months. If I remember correctly, there was a slashdot article pointing to a review of IE7.
On top of that, there are always insane amount of Windows betas floating around before a final release. My cousin subscribes to MSDN and has a box of CD/DVD spindles in his garage of Windows 2000 betas back when that was coming out. This really is now surprise.
Now if the leaked beta came with viruses straight on the iso, that would be newsworthy.
There becomes a confusion when I write:
"Hopefully, he left on Tuesday"
That sentence is not ambiguous.
Do I mean that I hope he left on Tuesday, or that he had hope when he left on Tuesday?
The former. It would not be natural English to use it in the latter sense.
It should mean the latter but in common use it's starting to instead mean the former.
"It's starting" is a rather funny way of describing a usage that has been standard for about a century, and "in common use" is a bit strange given that the form has been predominant even in formal, literary, and technical English for at least 40 years.
And I'm surprised to see you say that a word "should" mean something, when you go on to acknowledge, quite correctly, that language is a fluid thing. It's safe to assume you don't believe treacle "should" mean an antidote to snake venom, so why do you believe hopefully "should" mean "the subject acts with hope" rather than "I speak with hope"?
(I like the subtle split infinitive, incidentally. Nice way to emphasise the fact that most "rules" are arbitrary stylistic decisions, rather than being founded in usage or convenience.)
Microsoft even has a link called Get the Beta right on its website. By calling this a "leak" you're trying to knock Microsoft in some strange way.
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Huh!? While I am a Microsoft "fan", I also make a great deal of $$$ writing software for Microsoft operating systems. This may be a surprise to you, but there even are companies that make BILLIONS of $$$ writing software for Microsoft OSs. I download the beta to ensure compatibility, and to make sure I'm ready to support the new features. It's serious business, not just something to play with.
Best Buy can have you arrested
My biggest critisim of WMP 10 was the way the internet retrieved information about the currently playing song was removed and replaced with song-selling websites which don't provide nearly as much info (i.e. no bio's, lyrics etc.) and only seem to be interested in selling other songs (or even the song you are already listening to, why you would want to repay for something you have probably already brought is beyond me).
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On Screenshot 1 the song being played on WMP is listed as Teenage Wasteland by The Who. The song, of course, is actually called "Baba O'Riley" So, perhaps in addtion to leaking the screenshots, Chris123NT (if that is his real name) is also an evil P2P file sharer?
Ok a build leaked, so what? it's not like it's the first build to be leaked... some release groups live only on that... there was like 50 builds of whislter (xp) that leaked.. does that mean xp sucks? no. of course all the *nix lover will bash me but wtv... xp is good... at least it's the best x86 desktop os for general cosomation... no liux distro is as mature as xp and probably will never be has money is what makes the wold turn... anyways stop bashing M$ and windows theres no link between the article subject and your bashing. p.s. I use gentoo on my dektop so don't claim I'm sold M$
I just wish they'd do something about the memory management. Windows seems to swap to disk all the time just for the heck of it. The real problem is when you start using excessive amounts of memory (more than physical memory at least), and even after deallocating it, the entire system goes on a swapping rampage, and everything becomes annoyingly slow until you restart the machine. I thought the MM in Linux at least is a lot better. It actually uses physical memory for something useful and only swaps when it absolutely needs to. I wish Windows did that.
You've actually seen Linux use it's swap file? I have Gentoo installed (KDE) and no matter what I do I can't for the life of me get Linux to use any of the swap file. Sometimes I wonder why I even created one. (I have 512 MB of memory BTW.) XP on the other hand seems contempt to thrash the hell out of its swap whenever I so much as launch a reasonably heavy application (or several lighter ones).