M$ Longhorn : 4015 ScreenShots..

[~~NeYo~~]

Whats your opinion?!

http://www.winbeta.org/modules.php?n...ticle&sid=1312

*interesting* ... u can deffo see things are moving quite quickly! ... interesting! ... i really like that clock thing, its a nice little effect! ... or am i *THAT* blonde!?

anyhow, whatcha think?!

NeYo

[baldprof]

Well there's no accounting for taste. Reminds me of the AOL inteface, dipped in blue paint.
But these things can be themed or skinned. The real issue is: what's under the hood? This is an OS after all.

[dlloyd]

It looks like a flattened XP.
I don't like it.

[mr. k]

mabye im just not good with windows but that looks exactly the same as xp with a little blue... what are the new features? what makes it so anticipated? isn't it's release in like 2005? i think i'm just not a windows man. btw neyo didn't you used to have a skinned out windows that looked like aqua with a dock? where do you get that setup?

[bjurusik]

That looks absolutely horrible. Once again Microsoft tries to rip off Apple with the blue-ish colors. But that's not the worst part about it, what is is the UI. I'm looking at the hardware and devices folder, and I'm a pretty experienced computer user, but that gives me a headache just looking at it and trying to figure out its purpose. I couldn't even imagine a newbie trying to figure out what all that stuff means. Of course, Microsoft will probably put one of those screens saying, "If you're dumb, you don't need to bother seeing what's in this folder, elsewise click here."

[toast]

I have two observations to make.

1) GUI

First, I think (but am not yet sure) that, exactly 10 years after Apple, Microsoft is discovering the power of an elegant GUI. Some MS engineer might have say "Oh, you know what ? When the whole looks nice, it's easier to use." That's great.

The counterpart of the 10 years delay taken by MS in the idea that 'GUI is good' is that Longhorn is completely ugly. It looks like your screen is badly calibrated, with 300% Hue for the Blue tints.

In brief, those Microsoft retards have still a lot to learn.

2) Comprehension

I'm sorry, I did my best. Really. I told myself: "That's a new Windows, it's completely different from the other ones. Forget your pre-thoughts about Windows and enjoy those screenshots."

Nevertheless, I still face the same problem when looking at those pictures: I don't understand anything.

Look at the Control Panel (#6). Look at it. What do you catch from it ? For my own, nothing. The icons, do they guide me ? Is there a general structure to help me out ? If I'm looking for, say, screen settings, do I find it clearly indicated somewhere ? Or do I have to think that, "hmmm, screen is hardware, so it's Hardware and Settings, but wait, screen is also about appearance, err... no hardware. I'll try both." ?

Look at the Explorer (shot #9). Do you understand where you are ? I don't. I'm lost. I don't see the rest of the computer, just this big, ... empty folder. It's empty, for sure, they've written it in size 18pt in this sort of huge, unelegant, space-wasting bar.

The Microsoft products are all the same. Everything goes well... until you look at the left sidebar. Then, it gets cryptic.

There's an "All Pictures & Videos" option in my own "Pictures & Videos" folder ?! What do you mean, they aren't all at the same place ? Are you going to throw me on the Internet ?
There's also a "By Year" option. Frankly, I still can't figure what it can do. If I'm lucky, it'll show the Longhorn history, who knows.

Oh, there's a "Filter" option. Like in the Control Panel. I don't know why, but I feel I'm going to use this one a lot. Do you realize what this means ? Using filter commands to find a control in your Control Panel ? Or to find an image when you have one sole (and empty) "Picture & Videos" folder ? Please hand me some more Prozac.

That's how I feel about those 15 screenshots. Depressive. I still don't understand a damn of Windows. The same mistakes come over each version. Simplicity is still not an important feature. Too bad, said I while realizing "The Cell" had finished copying on my desktop. Bye people, back in 2 hours or so

[~~NeYo~~]

Yea, toast i agree! .... after being forced to use to use Windows for a while *recently* ... i find window stuck with too many "if, buts, and maybes" ... it asks me a damn question, almost everytime i do things. Things don't work to logically either. For example:

If you open the Recycle bin in Explorer up, then right click it, and empty ... the window remains open! Now whats the point of me staring @ a blank explorer pain, which is my Bin?! i see none.

IF you have emails open in Outlook Express, then, say you've minimized it, and gone into OE, and deleted them from your inbox. Then, when you later, find you had minimized these emails, and click delete, its like OE Gets confused ... "You cannot delete this email" ... and your thinking, "why not? its my DAMN Computer" ..

those kinda examples in my opinion typify the windows experience.

NeYo

[~~NeYo~~]

the fact, that no matter what i click in (the pic attached) .. the DAMN Dialog box will not go away ... just P*sses me off!