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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."
Windows Powershell is installed by default. May be that would help it break into the mainstream.
Looks like Microsoft's PR department is trying to generate buzz for another boring OS.
As far as I can see, the only real changes to the interface of Windows since Windows 95 relate to colors of buttons and default display of objects. The objects are still there and you can go back to the old default. Application launch, Window switching, Application layout, System Setting changes, Window/menu placements, and all the other core features of the GUI have not changed at all since Windows 95. It's the same thing with each release. It's a 13 year old interface that is showing its age. I personally think it's high time Microsoft did what Apple did with the release of OS X, try something new because what they have now is garbage.
Burn Hollywood Burn
And what makes the Mac interface great is not even that in the first place; it's the fact that it is well-planned, well-designed, easy to use. No matter how much "shiny" you put on Windows, it will remain an inferior interface, even compared to OS 9 -- in fact 9 beats X in a few interface aspects.
Circumcision is child abuse.
>to allow you and other nerds to debate yesterday's news.
No, the point of Slashdot is to rag on Microsoft--sorry Micro$oft--without actually knowing anything about the subject at hand.
Windoze is-a usability nightmare anyways
Riiight. Everyone knows that if you want to get something done in windows, you have to click "Allow," because the first 30 times when you clicked that X (which you're not really sure what it does, but it means "not the bad choice") you couldn't play your free monkey spanking game.
Meanwhile, if you want to use a program on Linux, you have to open a terminal and---oh shit, you just lost me.
Worse still, if you want to use a Mac, just download the program and... Why did it open another folder? What the hell is with the big smiley "A" folder and the arrow pointing at it? Why won't it just install?
Boot Windows, Linux, and ESX over the network for free.
Why not? Really, who doesn't have a 64 bit capable CPU?