Longhorn Vista Pics & Movie

[ged3000]

As was said - there didnt seem to be anything all that different from XP sp2 in those screenshots. I guess there must be something other than just visual/eye chandy changes behind the whole thing? TBH I dunno what Id want it to do extra... Exposé features would be a godsend for windows users, even with the taskbar, to see what windows were open. They had what looks like a spotlight search box - if its as fast as or faster than spotlight, thats a great thing, if not :S ...

Surely, there must be some kind of novel selling point? Longhorn releases a good year or two ago looked very different from that - Id almost be tempted to say that that looked more like a modded XP system than the Longhorn Id come to expect.

[MacFreak]

Yawning... Who cares about this Vista. I am happy with MacOS X

[markceltic]

I sent those links to my bro-in- law(a windows user)to let him know what's on the horizon.Either he's getting paranoid in his advanced years or things are worse than I realized for Windows users. He wouldn't go near them for fear of spyware or some other maliciousness .

[RGrphc2]

I think it's funny that Vista is all ready being targeted for virus and it's not even out yet!!!

http://news.com.com/First+potential+...9428&subj=news

[nixgeek]

The only thing that I thought would really be interesting about Vista was also removed apparently. Monad, which would have been a command shell similar to what Linux/Unix/Mac OS X have, has been removed from the feature list for Vista. Leave it to MS to screw up a command shell as well.

[g/re/p]

Hey, isn't this thread supposed to be
Apple News, Rumors & Discussion??

[Jason]

FWIW I am using Longhorn Beta 1 on my pc. IMHO (remember I have no probs with Windows unlike most of you ) its not bad at all. There are some cool improvements, there are some bugs, and there are some missing features. It is a beta and I'm sure the final release will be different. The theme has some inconsistencies, but so does OSX with metal, aqua and whatever the new look is called... The transparency effect is actually really neat, like said it blurs whats behind it. And like previously said, they should differentiate between animations for closing and minimizing. And like said, it is like XP, but its adding new features without re-creating the wheel, which is a good idea IMHO. As far as security? I really don't know and don't care, I've never had an issue with either viruses or spyware in my life. But yes, of course, the average user will. The search engine is of the same idea as spotlight but a bit different. Its not bad, but its not great. It's not fully implemented in the Beta 1 build, but it's there. There are some new organizational tools in explorer which are both useful and cumbersome since MS has yet to explain some things to the user (no real help file yet, but thats expected).

Anyways, this Beta is very incomplete, but if they fully complete everything by the time of release it will be a good Windows system. (Note: I said Windows system so that those of you who are alright with Windows will like it, and those of you who aren't will prolly continue to dislike it )... anyways It's always a good thing for OS's to move forward otherwise it would all stagnate, so whether or not your a fan, please realize that new releases keeps inovation going... for all companies.

[HateEternal]

Originally Posted by nixgeek

The only thing that I thought would really be interesting about Vista was also removed apparently. Monad, which would have been a command shell similar to what Linux/Unix/Mac OS X have, has been removed from the feature list for Vista. Leave it to MS to screw up a command shell as well.

Are they for sure removing it? I know someone already wrote a virus script in it, so they were thinking of making it an optional add on, but not something that would be a forced install.