Longhorn

[Arden]

At least Longhorn doesn't seem to have any of that sour apple eye candy that XP has, even if it's a little (snicker) heavy on the sour blueberry.

I think if you want an OS that's radically different from anything we're used to, it should incorporate interactive holograms, something like the shuttle controls on "Earth: Final Conflict."

[Tigger]

Here are some more screenshots:
http://www.activewin.com/screenshots/longhorn/

Doesn't look to different from XP to me...
Fortunatly MS still lets you choose how the OS looks like, they have a silvery theme included (At least in XP) and you can choose to use the Classic GUI.

If they manage to get some really good multitasking into Longhorn (At least TaskBar no more part of Explorer.exe) I don't care what the GUI looks like (Well, umm... maybe I change my mind if I see the final version of the GUI )

[Cat]

The only thing I notice about the screenshot posted by mightyjlr is the following: I don't understand a damn thing of what's going on.
And true, this blue obsession is sickening.

Longhorn will be, IMHO, a perfect Microsoft product. Falsely elegant, falsely practical, falsely new.

Very true ... There's a taskbar, and another taskbar on the right and a menubar at the top, and under that an app-specific menubar, and two more menubars, and the start menu/panel and a whole lot of buttons and icons and , well ... quite clear, no?

The last time I had such an ultimately cluttered screen was when I had Gnome and VPC running at the same time ... fortunately at least they had different colors and window mangers ... in the Longhorn everything is just straight blue ... never heard of color coding and ergonomics, huh?

[fryke]

That was a good last word for an unneeded thread, tsizKEIK, thank you. Hello! We're APPLE News & Rumours here. ;-)

[hulkaros]

Originally posted by fryke
That was a good last word for an unneeded thread, tsizKEIK, thank you. Hello! We're APPLE News & Rumours here. ;-)

I don't know Fryke! For SO long we have people here posting anything about Wintel... I don't agree with this but maybe www.macosx.com should consider a thread with name of something like this?: Wintel News & Rumours

I am bored to come every now and then here only to find "news" about Wintel...

Maybe a new site rule will put people in their place?

[kalantna]

What cracks me up the most is that they codenamed it "Milestone 5." Where are the other Milestones?

Would they be listed something like this?

1. Microsoft steals code from Apple and Xerox in the early 80s.

2. Microsoft buys out its first company; passes the software off as its own.

3. Microsoft buys out its thirtieth company; passes the software off as its own.

4. Microsoft buys out its fiftieth company; passes the software off as its own.

[bootleg]

Now now there was no real "stealing"

And Apple took from Xeron and then M$ took from Apple

[dlloyd]

tsizKEIK: I don't see how putting that in here will make this thread more useful. If you would just look around, this hs already been answered: make sure in the General section of System Prefs that you have anti-aliasing turned on down to at least 9 pts. That should fix it.