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Windows Vista Build 5231 Review
An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft has just released a new build for Windows Vista and it looks like Microsoft has made quite a few graphical changes. "This is possibly the only application with more anticipation surrounding it than Internet Explorer 7, if not Vista itself. We wonder if Microsoft would bundle Windows Media Player 11 with Vista exclusively or would it be available for download separately for Windows XP as well. It most certainly will end up looking a lot better (graphically) than most music players out there, iTunes included. Although it appears to look pretty straightforward, the interface has changed drastically, which makes it far more attractive than Windows Media Player 10 as well as competing applications."
Phantom Menace had pretty graphics too...
..but so does a gold plated turd.
/.'ed)
More screenies here (if
"There are no facts, only interpretations." --Friedrich Nietzsche.
If I wanted to know how Vista was doing...
Dude, these stories don't get posted here for information value - it's so we can reduce their pitiful Windows servers to a heap of smoking rubble. Which we're very successful at doing, thankyewverymuch.
This is where the serious fun begins.
Are they running their webserver on it?
It doesn't really matter, I'll make my standard response here:
"This looks pretty good- the graphic stuff doesn't really excite me, but I am interested in the way that it will integrate with my portable devices. I really like the move toward the better/more integrated syncing in Windows Media 10, so this should be even better.
While I am not too concerned about the new features, I wonder what the hardware specs of this will be. I guess I will need to upgrade my computer, but I'll wait on that. I'll probably move to Vista about 12 months after launch. But at work I am in the process of getting a new computer and I'm trying to load it up with everything possible. It's hard to explain to my boss (a gamer) why I need the best possible video card in the workstation I run a text editor on.
Oh, and I wonder if we'll be able to skin this version of Windows. I eventually liked the bubblegum blue theme, but it took a while. I hope they have a classic (bubblegum blue) mode!"
There..that's it. This is what I would have said if the article was available. And I would have tried to post it as close to the top of the page as possible (replying to another post which is unrelated) just to whore some Karma...which I've already whored enough of that it doesn't really matter.
No reason to lie.
Steve Balmer just sat down and wrote a review about the new ...
Wait, there were any chairs left to sit?
"And give us Mac users ammo for years to come."
Yeah all 39 of you.......
Link /.'d already?? I get timeout errors.
;-)
Slashdotted, or just an XP server?
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
"Yeah all 39 of you..."
Hey, there are now 57 of us. Apple reported a 48 percent year-over-year growth in Mac shipments in Q4.
"... with more anticipation surrounding it than Internet Explorer 7 ..."
What can I get for my $300? I could get Knoppix, and my $300...
Are you kidding?? Desktop media players are so far behind! They have to catch up to network television! I want a media player with a constant scroll ticker, animated graphics that pop up and consume the lower left quadrant of the screen every minute or so, and a memory and processor heavy 3D rendering engine that runs all the time just in case when I'm watching the credits for a movie I want to tilt them into the screen at a 35degree angle and shrink them so that I have room to watch advertisements that stream into my media player and are saved to my HD while I was watching the movie. But they'll be totally kick-ass advertisements geared towards me because the media player will automatically send microsoft a list of all media titles on my computer so they can build a psychological profile. Oh, and it damn well better support animated skins so I can make it look like it's on fire. I hear they might even integrate clippy the paper clip in WMP-11!
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