Longhorn Screenshots

[kirupa]

Hey everyone,
Here are a few Longhorn screenshots from the latest build: http://www.neowin.net/comments.php?category=main&id=19527


:)

[barge]

kirupa, why don't you use a mac? do you prefer a pc?
Still looks a lot like XP, but it's not a complete new version is it?

[prstudio]

Yes it is.

[T-O]

hehehe awesome! :)

[kirupa]

The program is still in Alpha stages. MS, from past experience, doesn't showcase the new interface until late Beta. This is just a temporary look they will use while showcasing the internal features of Longhorn. But, as of now though, like you say, it does look a lot like XP. You can actually download XP styles that use the new Longhorn interface from various skinning sites.

Here is one: http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=161612

I prefer a PC because it's compatible with all of my software/games, easily upgradeable, cost-effective, and I prefer rather something that almost everyone in the world also uses.

Cheers!
Kirupa :ub:

[McGuffin]

Very sexah.

[grimdeath]

Not to bash but to me it looks like nice skins thats all, me i use my ol classic windows options and have no neat nice effects or skins going on my pc but thats just me some people actually like these kinds of cutesy things :-/

[Lou_Sifffer]

the EFF is recommending that nobody upgrade to LongHorn, until MS makes the privacy issues go away.

http://www.eff.org

The co-founder, John Perry Barlow is an amazing man.

[thoriphes]

I am still convinced that Microsoft isn't actually fixing anything, but really making Windows look worse and worse.

[kirupa]

Luckily we all have skins, for I couldn't stand the default XP look, and I got tired of the Classic look after seeing something similar for about 7-8 years hehe :)

[SeiferTim]

Hmm.. is it just me, or do some of the windows look similar to OS X?
:!:

[asphaltcowboy]

my my.. an OS that's even more ugly as XP... :sure:

/me buys Longhorn and immediately reverts to w2k style...

[SeiferTim]

/me buys Longhorn and immediately reverts to w2k style...

Lets hope they kept that option... :ne:
Gawd, I never could stand the XP skins... too intrusive...

[The_Vulcan]

Does anyone have any idea what Microsoft is going to do with Longhorn ?


People say it will be like comparing Windows 3, to Windows 95.

I have read that it will skew the line between desktop and program so that they are virtually the same thing.

When I think of any upgrade now I think of it as a new skin based on windows 95.
I mean Linux, Mac……. There all really the same thing…. A desktop….

I have tried to conceptualize what they might come up with to justify saying that it will be as evolutionary as Windows 3, to Windows 95 but I can’t think of anything.

[SeiferTim]

I dunno.....
personally, reading into what you said, I don't think I'd like what they seem to be trying to do... almost like getting rid of applications all together... like, you want to type, you just type, and its all OS based... does that make any sense?

[The_Vulcan]

Not to me….. :(



But I also read that they are no longer developing IE.

That it is going to be so integrated into longhorn it won’t be a separate application anymore.



Although given Microsoft’s current legal battles they may have a hard time making the way they want.

[SeiferTim]

This is what I'm interpruting:

You turn on the PC, your desktop comes up....
Any time you want to open a program, it will basically be like opening a window on your desktop, no matter what the program. You just click the icon, and then there's a window, which you can move, resize, etc, but can act like your desktop in the same way... you open a word-processing program, and you want to add an image that you need to draw, you click something like: "Make Image", and a box appears half-way incorporated into the Word program, that you draw right into, thereby eliminating the need to open the other program, make the image, save it, close the program, and then import the image into the word processing program.... this sort of works as it is, but I think their looking for it to be more usable...
I think its easier for me to envision what their looking for, than describe it...
I don't think they are this far, just yet, but say you have a window open. It's not a text document, not a flash movie, not an image, its all of the above... You can type, then drag a box, and make a flash movie in the center of the document, and then draw some images off to the side, and then put some sounds into it, all without ever opening another program... You just see one screen, that can be anything, and everything all at once...