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stuffedmonkey · Aug 20, 2003, 04:31 PM

Just saw these pictures up at winsupersite.com - it seems that microsoft has finally revealed what is going to be the user interface for the next generation of Windows - codenamed "longhorn".

Check these for shots of the new Aero theme - look familliar?

http://www.winsupersite.com/images/s...winhec-02b.png
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase..._2003.asp#aero

Also - I think apple gets the better of the codename wars in Panther vs Longhorn - reminds me of an old "steers and queers" joke....

allap · Aug 20, 2003, 04:35 PM

i think it's supposed to be blue, looks to me like the image was greyscaled so as to make the diffrent highlighted areas stand out.

daydreamer · Aug 20, 2003, 04:46 PM

I think Allap is right.

- - e r i k - - · Aug 20, 2003, 04:52 PM

Yup. It's clearly NOT brushed metal, just a greyscaled photoshop to highlight new functions. Talk about jumping the gun.

mikemako · Aug 20, 2003, 05:06 PM

however, even the blue windows have a brushed metal feel to them. They seem to be highlighted the same (have the middle shinier with it fading out toward the sides), and they also have the rounded bottom corners & textured bottom right corner to resize.

Click

::maroma:: · Aug 20, 2003, 06:15 PM

That is nothing to get worked up about. If they are trying to copy OS X's brushed, they failed miserably. That UI is butt ugly! And would you expect anything less from MS?

MikeFo · Aug 20, 2003, 07:26 PM

Is Longhorn a joke or what? The description of it reads like a MacOSX promoting paper. It's exactly what OSX is today. Maybe one of you guys should MS send an email and clear some things up :-)
Apple will also come with a new filesystem next year and will beat the one from MS.
It was really a nice reading .... LOL

antisonne · Aug 20, 2003, 10:02 PM

I used windows for more than 10 years, Before I switched to mac, I broke down many times (beat the crap out of my case, ripping out components) wishing I had a mac. Take it from someone who knows... WINDOWS SUCKS. I can honestly say I pretty much know windows inside and out, Nothing I cant really fix, But it is a #$#%^#%@^. Once i got my iBook, my newly upgraded pc (just got a new geforce4 mx440 128 ddr same day) was retired, I do not use windows, In school I refuse to. I bring my iBook everywhere I need to. Windows users only wish they knew howto use a mac (they cant figure out howto get past the "one button mouse", hahaha). And about longhorn, dont expect much, after all its just windows.

zachs · Aug 20, 2003, 10:17 PM

Well they made an attempt at OS X's icon scaling here.

Stratus Fear · Aug 21, 2003, 01:22 AM

Originally posted by zachs:
Well they made an attempt at OS X's icon scaling here.

Considering most Windows icons are only 32x32 and all Mac OS X icons are 128x128, go figure.

- - e r i k - - · Aug 21, 2003, 03:23 AM

Originally posted by zachs:
Well they made an attempt at OS X's icon scaling here.

Woah! Look at all that wasted space in that window (not talking about the icons). People complained about OS X's GUI taking a few pixels more!

Appleman · Aug 21, 2003, 04:02 AM

Originally posted by zachs:
Well they made an attempt at OS X's icon scaling here.

ApeInTheShell · Aug 21, 2003, 04:12 AM

"There are some cool UI uses for window scaling," Hammil noted. "We could have live but iconified versions of windows that appear when you're searching for windows. Windows can be grouped, and minimized together, where windows are represented as shrunken versions of the original window."

Wow! the innovations that Microsoft is making! I could of sworn I have seen all of these features in another operating system released in 2001. Oops, my bad. Hail Microsoft! Longhorn is the new New!!

Simon · Aug 21, 2003, 04:58 AM

Originally posted by ApeInTheShell:
Wow! the innovations that Microsoft is making! I could of sworn I have seen all of these features in another operating system released in 2001. Oops, my bad. Hail Microsoft! Longhorn is the new New!!

Hot Damn! MS and Dell are one hell of a bunch of real innovators.

Just recently I heard Mike Dell was called a pioneer dince he dropped the FDD on some of his desktops.

JLL · Aug 21, 2003, 05:35 AM

Yikes!! This only shows 20% of the AV Preference window (unless they messed up the scroll bar) - and that's only the menu!

Evinyatar · Aug 21, 2003, 06:24 AM

They seem to be going from bad to worse. XP was ugly, but this one is ugly and badly finished. Look at the jaggies on the sliders and some of the buttons... the team responsible for that ought to be fired on the spot. What a half-ass job.

Mediaman_12 · Aug 21, 2003, 11:58 AM

These shots also show more 'uses'for that giant sidebar thingy (other than the huge clock face they had there before) there looks to be some sort of 'in-box' and a contact list. Huuumm I just know these are things I need to look at all the time

gorgonzola · Aug 21, 2003, 12:41 PM

Man, you almost gave me a heart attack. I thought the brushed metal virus had finally gone cross-platform.

Then there would be no stopping it...

stuffedmonkey · Aug 21, 2003, 03:35 PM

From the front page of slashdot.org:

"The Supersite for Windows has some shiney-blue looking leaked screenshots of LongHorn. The new screenshots of the 'Aero' interface mainly seem to be concerned with Digital Media integration - which has become deeper still. A new 'SyncManager' screenshot is up there (copying of iSync?) as well as some pictures of LongHorn prototype hardware, which looks like a cross between a desktop PC / Notebook / Tablet PC. "

So it looks like iSync is in there too....

mitchell_pgh · Aug 21, 2003, 03:53 PM

Originally posted by stuffedmonkey:
Also - I think apple gets the better of the codename wars in Panther vs Longhorn - reminds me of an old "steers and queers" joke....

It's actually Longhorn vs. whatever is after 10.4 (or at least what's after Panther)...

Longhorn is to be released sometime in 2005

10.2 - 2002 (Jaguar)
10.3 - 2003 (Panther)
10.4 - 2004 (speculation)
10.5 - 2005 (speculation)

My "wish list" keeps shrinking with every OS update.

booboo · Aug 21, 2003, 04:48 PM

It might not be brushed metal now, but it probably will be.

Shameless whores that they are ;-)