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Windows 7 Beta Screenshots Leaked
Slatterz writes "Screenshots of what is said to be the next version of Microsoft's Windows operating system have been leaked onto the internet. The ThinkNext.net blog posted a range of screenshots over the weekend which it said represents Windows 7. Overall, the screenshots show a distinctly Vista-like interface, but there is still plenty of time for tweaks and changes to take place."
Funny thing is they're not actually screen shots, they're running videos... guess they haven't fixed the memory management or paging issues in v7 either.
If you can read this... 01110101 01110010 00100000 01100001 00100000 01100111 01100101 01100101 01101011
For those of you who cannot read the article due to slashdotting, here are some highlights:
* It's main color is no longer blue, it's brown
* The default desktop image features a graphical heron
* The start button is now a circular orange button
* Task bars or "Panels" can now be found both at the top of the screen AND at the bottom.
* The new graphical bells and whistles previously referred to as Vista Aero is now called "Beryl".
* Beryl is cooler and runs much smoother than Aero. It requires much less hardware power than Aero.
* The new version of Windows is said to be much more stable and secure than any previous version.
SIG: TAKE OFF EVERY 'CAPTAIN'!!
They missed this one from their screen-shots.
As Groucho would have said: "Windows leaks, but I repeat myself."
If you cant afford a 2 gig stick of ram you can't afford the power to run a computer. Or food.
Get a job, hippy.
3laws: No freebies, no backsies, GTFO.
Yeah, you're the only one using those applications.
Erik Dalén
Call me old fashioned, but I still use TOPS-20 with a teletype...
Andy Warhol got it right / Everybody gets the limelight
Andy Warhol got it wrong / Fifteen minutes is too long.
...and that's only since I recently upgraded from a plugboard
Andy Warhol got it right / Everybody gets the limelight
Andy Warhol got it wrong / Fifteen minutes is too long.
(I'm poor, and it works, why would I upgrade?)
You are the cause of the credit crunch! Support the economy with inappropriate consumerism
Fingers, man, fingers! Who needs to count to more than 10 anyway?
My brain is overly lubricated
What ever happened to that little fella, anyway? He was there one day and then...gone!
Say, I wasn't supposed to feed him, was I?
You are welcome on my lawn.
And here I was wasting time by clicking Settings on the search bar... :P
I have developed a truly marvelous proof of this comment, which this signature is too narrow to contain.
One of my pet peeves about XP is that when I disable the search dog in the normal way, it looks at me, wags it's tail, turns around and walks away.
I just fucking told it I don't want any cute animated characters in my OS, so why should disabling it be animated?
Is SFU and SUA what the developers in Microsoft use to do real work?
No. It brings to mind the vision of a middle-aged tea-lady with saggy brown stockings and curlers, smelling of stale bread and mildew, holding a large brightly-coloured banner saying "NEW!", while she coughs, spits, scratches her arse, and then falls down dead.
One of my pet peeves about XP is that when I disable the search dog in the normal way, it looks at me, wags it's tail, turns around and walks away.
I just fucking told it I don't want any cute animated characters in my OS, so why should disabling it be animated?
It used to be worse in the betas. Then if you tried to disable the search dog, Rover, it would just replace him with Cujo who was larger and would sometimes go crazy and chew up your files.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
Besides, some of like to use our computers for something other than running the OS. For example, Gentoo users can use the extra RAM to re-compile their kernel.
Call me old fashioned, but I still use punching cards as input. Much purer and reliable to me.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power lost.
Yeah, for those that want a bitch of an OS. :-P
home
What's the difference between vista and windows 7?
Lipstick.
I seem to recall Microsoft like that idea so much that they paid their former CEO a huge amount of money to look at you, wag his tail, and walk away.
Delicious!
My first Journal Entry ever, in 8 years! http://slashdot.org/journal/365947/aphelion-scifi-fantasy-horror-poetry-webzine
Call me old fashioned but I still use butterflies to alter wind patterns allowing cosmic rays to flip bits on the hard drive. http://xkcd.com/378/
Huh. I guess there's another meaning for the acronym "SFU" that I didn't know.
My finger counting goes up to 11.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. - Terry Pratchett
Call me old fashioned, but I still use toggle switches as input and blinking lights as output. Much purer and reliable to me.
Call me old fashioned, but I still use Unix with the command line interface. Much cleaner and faster to me.
Heck yeah. X is simply a tool for using the higher resolutions your monitor supports to fit more 80x24 terminals on the screen and position them in your preferred order.
There's no place like
funny, mine goes up to 1023.