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Windows 7 Beta Screenshots Leaked

Posted by timothy on from the they're-prevolutionary dept.

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."

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  1. Pointless by abigsmurf · · Score: 5, Insightful
    The GUI is one of the later things to be implemented in a windows development cycle, of course it's going to look like Vista.

    That said, given that aero was one of the nicer things about Vista, I imagine they'll base the GUI on it but make it look different enough to elminite comparissons between vista.

    Ideally they'll strike a balance between the prettyness of vista and the functionality and performance of XP.

    1. Re:Pointless by Sique · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Ideally they'll strike a balance between the prettyness of vista and the functionality and performance of XP.

      Call me oldfashioned, but I still use XP with the Win2000 interface. Much cleaner and faster to me.

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    2. Re:Pointless by CheShACat · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Call me old fashioned, but I still use Unix with the command line interface. Much cleaner and faster to me.

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  2. Why do we say 'Leaked'? by CuteSteveJobs · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Everyone knows 'Leak' is Public-Relations-Speak for 'Released'. Now if someone uploaded Windows 7, *THAT* would be a leak. But for anything else than that, why can't we call it what it is?

    "Windows 7 Beta Screenshots Released"
    Fix'd!

  3. Re:Interface "changes" by Nightspirit · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They can't really do anything else without pissing off a majority of their customers. Lets face it, if they put in a dock or unified titlebar on the top everyone would lambaste them for copying Apple, not to mention there are 3rd party apps that have the same functionality, which may put them in an antitrust situation.

    The only annoying thing about vista UI is UAC, and from the article it appears that they possibly fixed that. I was envious of expose, but then I installed Switcher, and while it may not have the same functionality, I'm content.

    The only things I would like out of windows 7 is for it to use less resources, improve UAC, and increase security. The last thing I want is a total UI overhaul or total rewrite making 98% of my programs run slower in emulation mode, or not run at all.

  4. Re:*Yawn*, I think I'll stick with Ubuntu. by Corporate+Troll · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You develop on a low rent laptop? Ok, but how do you ensure your software runs properly on higher end spec machines?

    I can understand the question in the inverse direction, but this is the strangest concern I've ever seen. Software written for a low end machine wouldn't run faster on a beefed up machine?!?

    I must be missing something, care to expand a bit on the issue?

    I've always been /for/ the idea on giving developers 5-year old machines so they start to care a bit for performance. Heck, and I am a developer....