Longhorn 5203 Screenshots

Posted in Computers & Technology, Microsoft, Spread IE by Elliott Back on July 9th, 2005.

Since XeroCool can’t seem to handle the load on his server about the new longhorn beta 1 screenshots, I’ll post them here. I’m currently downloading them from this bit-torrent at 596.8 Kb/s, where you can go to get original copies.

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Elliott Back 3 years ago 1 point
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I'm going to leave this commentary as a comment, but I absolutely cannot stand the new operating system. What's up MSFT? Come on!! Longhorn Beta 1 looks like Windows XP with a translucent skin? Where's the cool UI system you talked about? Where's the long-delayed winFS? Where is one single feature that makes Lonhorn stand out?

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John Pope 3 years ago 1 point
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Just goes to show that there is such a thing as too much transparency.

The oddest thing is the position of the menus in IE7, beneath the address bar, and the tabs - very strange!

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david 3 years ago 1 point
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I could see using some transparency on any inactive windows, but they seem to do it on the active one as well?? Also, the 'blur' effect is really a strain on the eyes.

There's also too much going on in the windows, in too many different fonts/styles. Hard to pick up on what's important. I hope this isn't the best they try to muster against OSX! All the hardcore gamers will stick with XP, and no businesses will upgrade for this stuff (they'll stay on 98SE! :) ).

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El Payo 3 years ago 1 point
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crickets chirping

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J3777o 3 years ago 1 point
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Uh, why on earth should the GUI have to look diffrent in order for you to like it?
Every version of OSX looks almost exactly the same as the others. When is the last time you seen a radically visually diffrent verson of Linux? It seems like you guys are looking for improved eye-candy or maybe just an excuse to bash Microsoft not a serious OS improvement.

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escher 3 years ago 1 point
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you can put polish on a piece of shit, but you'll just end up with a shiny piece of shit.

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Aldirn 3 years ago 1 point
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THANK YOU, J3777o. I agree wholeheartedly.

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MaW 3 years ago 1 point
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I see Microsoft are still incapable of recognising the value of UI consistency, and thus Windows Media Player still looks completely out of place (in fact it looks even worse than it does on XP thanks to the quite nice greyness of Longhorn). But then, perhaps that will change before release.

I think they can definitely be accused of overuse of transparency though. I can't be convinced right now that it's more than eye candy as opposed to useful visual effects.

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Farmer John 3 years ago 1 point
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It looks pretty lame! And the transparency is confusing, not cool looking.

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dmf 3 years ago 1 point
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So, basically, it's a new wallpaper that is supposed to be kewl?

The UI itself is an improvement over XP, but not over Win2K. Just a little more Xwindows-ish. Sort of. But nothing worth telling your grandma about.

Again, a new wallpaper. Yay. Or something.

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Gravitar 3 years ago 1 point
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I think it looks great. What exactly are you guys looking for? Widgets? Windows that make sound effects when you minimize them, and shrink themselves with a cool animation. I'm not getting the complaints at all. If Microsoft had redone the whole UI I'm sure many of you would get on their case for that as well.

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Anonymous 3 years ago 1 point
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Keep in mind the UI is hardly in its final form. Beta 2 will have several UI improvements (especially the taskbar).

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BoxcarBill 3 years ago 1 point
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does anyone else find it funny that they're looking at linux-noob?

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Adrian 3 years ago 1 point
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J3777o: Apple innovate with every release. They try things, they do things differently. Microsoft wait for others to innovate, copy the idea, lie about how good / close to completion their implementation is and then release something that is in most cases worse than the previous version.

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Adrian 3 years ago 1 point
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Dear J3777o
"When is the last time you seen a radically visually diffrent verson of Linux? " - Oh you jest?
There are about 12 different Window Managers for Linux and each one of them is radically different but then you've never actually seen them have you.

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LS 3 years ago 1 point
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Despite all the complaints I see here, there are reasons besides eye candy for adding features to a UI. The biggest feature touted for Avalon is (was?) vector graphics. I can't tell from the images here whether this has been implemented or not. What this means is that the GUI widgets are not images, but are instead drawn in real-time. What this means for you is that the UI will look the same no matter what the resolution. If you have a monitor that is 6000x6000 pixels, the size of the objects on screen will be the same, but they will just be sharper. This paves the way for virtually infinite resolution displays, and allows programmers not to worry about some details of screen size. OS X already has this capability. In fact, it is based on PDF, which supports vector based graphics.

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Dave 3 years ago 1 point
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I've noticed that they have placed a "How to Report a Bug" button on the Desktop. How much do you want to bet that one gets grossly overused?

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YakuYakkePepe 3 years ago 1 point
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Good to see that ol' MS Paint is keepin' up with the times!
http://elliottback.com/wp/wp-content/lh106wh.png

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Jason 3 years ago 1 point
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RE: John Hope :- IE7 Menus

Actually what happened to all the menus?
Previous versions of Windows seem to have a menu for every open window.

What now?
Buttons and Tabs aplenty or maybe heavy reliance on contextual menus.

Wonder if there is a way to set transparency levels, especially in the active window.

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Jaryd 3 years ago 1 point
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I wish people would get over the OS rivalry thing, just use the one they like and leave the rest of us in Peas.

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dav 3 years ago 1 point
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RE: Keep in mind the UI is hardly in its final form. Beta 2 will have several UI improvements (especially the taskbar).

Exactly. Can we just define "Beta" again? Wasn't that the stage when the system design was mostly finished and the bug hunting and fine-tuning began? Microsoft seems to change stuff, BIG stuff, around until the very last release candidate. And they still leave a lot of stuff to be desired in the final versions. They should decide on ONE design at the beginning of the process and use their time to put that one design into code, instead of fiddling around with a crippled system until it's unusable.

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Czubin Mark 3 years ago 1 point
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I think the people at microsoft forgot all about first impressions...
Why would anyone actually pay to upgrade just to see some more gui enhancements.

Just think about the youth.. they probably got copies of it already.
People should really look at the new functionality behind the graphical interface.
And keeping most tools the same makes it easier for people to migrate, think about system administrators, about your grandmother...

Still I'm cheering for the linux side and hope we can kick them in the balls next year :)

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Paul 3 years ago 1 point
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Oh jesus stop whinging its a BETA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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