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[Jamie Huskisson]

Go here for some "official" screenshots:
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presski...ta/default.mspx

Fact sheet:
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/newsroo...staBeta1FS.mspx

Official Announcement:
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2...staBeta1MA.mspx

looks like a 5 year old made the theme to me on first glance, maybe they have too many coders over designers over at Microsoft lol

HOWEVER, screenies over at this BETA user review look ALOT better:
http://www.wincustom...x?AID=82119&u=0

[Spectre]

that windows looks good so far cant wait for microsoft to realese it next year

[Jamie Huskisson]

the new development options look amazing.. i'm deffinatly going to be jumping on the learning wagon for that

[ronson]

Whatever happened to Long Horn?

[Jamie Huskisson]

ronson, on Jul 28 2005, 02:43 AM, said:

Whatever happened to Long Horn?

that was the codename, Vista is the official name...

[ronson]

Ohh lol, that sucks! I think LongHorn is a good name

[Jamie Huskisson]

yeah "Avalon" was there name for the new .net/visual studios stuff, but they've given it another boring name too

[ronson]

I think they do it to piss you off, so you end up "hacking" the software, causing people to spend more money.

[liquid486]

Moving on from the codenames isn't always so bad, XP was named "Whistler" at first...

[syntex]

That was stupid changing names lol

[softLearner]

Nice! I love the new icons and layout etc! I would of prefered Windows Longhorn to be the name of their new OS, I don't like Windows Vista they don't go together well.

Lets hope this will be better at security!

[Silwolffe]

Now I'm anxious to see how Microsoft fares on this new operating system (thank god for a name change). From what the review says, I cannot wait for it to come out.

[Armada]

looks nice

[Maxx-Designs]

is the os after longohrn??? im counfused.........

[adam123]

Maxx-Designs, on Jul 28 2005, 09:59 PM, said:

is the os after longohrn??? im counfused.........

Vista is longhorn Longhorn was it's codename durin development.

[Ki's Empire]

I heard it was going to have features such as you can't run software that isn't Microsoft approved? And your computer can be monitored by Microsoft?
Any truth in these?

KIWI

[Snoug]

Anyone know if the first release will be 64bit approved and compatible... I currently hate trying to get xp to work with 64bit considering you need special drivers for like 80% of your stuff.

it should just work magically like a hippo with a feather.

[Sodlier_Pyro]

I hope it won't be as buggy as XP was when it first came out.

[Jamie Huskisson]

Silwolffe, on Jul 28 2005, 11:23 AM, said:

Now I'm anxious to see how Microsoft fares on this new operating system (thank god for a name change). From what the review says, I cannot wait for it to come out.

from the looks of things this is the first operating system they've approached properly and coded from *mostly* the groud up...

i'm deffinatly looking foward to it, and hope i can get it on educational license or something..

[Blitz]

Snoug, on Jul 28 2005, 09:28 PM, said:

Anyone know if the first release will be 64bit approved and compatible... I currently hate trying to get xp to work with 64bit considering you need special drivers for like 80% of your stuff.

it should just work magically like a hippo with a feather.

Hippo with a feather? That's as cool as the other side of my pillow.

I'm looking froward to this release as well. We all know it'll be better than ME, because that was "the darkest moment in tech history." But since I need a new computer right about now anyways, it's a good excuse to get a new one.