REAL SCREENSHOTS: inside Windows 7

Raindog (Senior Forumologist):

Quoting CBR1100XX:
Looks all very promising

There are some promising sign in this release from all viewpoints.


Quoting CBR1100XX:
We'll just have to wait and see how the journos and spin doctors receive it pre-release.

Well wont that depend of whether or not the product delivers? Journalistic opinions are a guide only, it is the marketplace that has determined in the most part that Vista sucked for them.


Quoting CBR1100XX:
and they can look it from a fresh view.

well that depend on whether or not it offers some fresh alternatives and whether or not it resolves much of the issues that vista would have introduced.


Quoting CBR1100XX:
Personally, I think it is Vista 2.0

the 6.1 says you may be right.


Quoting CBR1100XX:
Hopefully, my SB Audigy card will work with it !

It's proven to work and work well on XP :>

AtticusFinch (User):

My son (autistic) and I are looking forward to the touchscreen technology implemented for general computer use.

TV Bis (User):

Gee whiz, I'm impressed! Not really it's just an upgrade to Vista but hey, I'll upgrade!.................

Halcon (Cornerstone member):

Microsoft is the Number one bully that try to crash all opposition with their irrelevant talk.
Windows 7 is nothing more than Vista revisited, so there is no incentive to move forward to that OS.
Microsoft will try to convince everyone that having an army of programmers working on that white elephant is justified to jack up the price of their product line and taking advantage to create derivatives of just one product into many colourful names.
Raindog is right when he says "So while more appealing what is presented here does little to help overcome a lot of opposition and apprehension".
As a software company, Microsoft is getting away with no punishment from the authorities for their deceptive practices.
The big software companies are totally dishonest, higher costs are placed upon their products, they expect everyone to abide to the unrealistic conditions written in their End User License Agreement, the user of their products is treated as an scum if these conditions are not accepted.
Moreover, as prices are sky high and not everyone can afford to buy these products, the last resort for these people is to get a "pirated copy" of any of the products needed for specific tasks.
Due to the utter arrogance of these companies, not willing to lower the price of their products to a more affordable means to buy these, citing the stupid idea that they have a lot of people working on their software product lines.
Worst is to brainwash the people with a lot of nonsense that to protect their so called "intellectual property" they use product "hacktivation" "Windows disadvantage" spyware trickery on everyone.
This is how very pathetic is the situation is today, you use a piece of a program in your computer, it cost a lot more than any electronic gadget, Television Set, Sound System or anything that you see, touch and interact with; yet it has a very limited warranty of less than 3 months.
With an electronic product you have between 1 to 5 years warranty!
I am fed up with the PR stunt software companies try to dish out to convince everyone that this time around the product will do some wonderful job.

gankul (Cornerstone member):

IF it is a question of cost, then how much is too much for the os? xp home and pro editions can be had oem for less then 200 now. IS this too much for standard people?

Vista had rediculouse pricing and amount of versi0ons, ill agree to that. I would prefer windows 7 to only have the home and pro editions, or better yet just one. the Pro.

plutonium210 (Advanced member):

Do I dare say that with each new version of Windows, the line between MS and Apple are getting a little fuzzy ? The feature set and aesthetics of Win7 are suspiciously familiar to OSX !

(We'll see how long it takes for Raindog to jump in with rants about MacTards)

Me In Oz (Advanced Forumologist):

Quoting plutonium210:
the line between MS and Apple are getting a little fuzzy ?

I suppose you could say MS is giving the market what it desires ! ................ Nah ! Just kidding .. LOL

FindTheWalrus (User):

Windows 7 seems to have been conceived with one goal in mind: fixing the damage done by Vista or,if you will, fixing vista.

There were plenty of promises made before Vista came out so Microsoft just has to deliver everything this time.

jake (User):

ok did they get rid of flip 3D?

jake (User):

oops, sorry i didn't mean to post twice.

McBanjo (Senior member):

"can you spot the 378 differences?"

No, but I can spot 378 things cloned directly from Leopard.

Raindog (Senior Forumologist):

Quoting McBanjo:
but I can spot 378 things cloned directly from Leopard.

But can you stripe 365 things cloned directly from tiger?

Tin (Senior Forumologist):

If those little textless icons are the new taskbar "way", then I'll keep my copies of XP and Vista thanks... Text is what tells me what something really is. Icons only tell me what type of thing it is (and when you have 5 or 6 lots of something open, it's kind of handy to know which is which).

AndyCee (Advanced member):

Looks like what Vista was meant to be.

"it's everything Pidgin and Adium aren't. And more."
So it has more features. Except the ones they have. Including extra ones they have, and don't have. Wait - what?

Martin Gifford (User):

I wish they'd just fix Windows Explorer and Search and give more power over the desktop and themes.
If you want to change from searching document names to document contents, it's hard to find where to make the adjustments.
I'd love them to use the ribbon (although I don't like it in Office 2007).

Sp33d d3mon (Cornerstone member):

wow, a fatter taskbar! now that's an incentive to upgrade! (not)

the ribbon in paint and that should be good, as well as a slimmer wmp with divx/xvid support is also good, but still, anyone who knows about k lite or vlc/mpc still wont want to upgrade vi$ta to 7.

plutonium210 (Advanced member):

Hey Me In Oz and Raindog !
You two want to go and get a room ?

CameronCross (New user):

That background looks very similar to fedora 9's default background.

Mike 029384 (New user):

Looks like Microsoft is playing catch-up with Macintosh, KDE, and Linux.

Anonymoussss (New user):

Wow. Even more like OSX than Vista. Very original

nightstep (New user):

It dont matter what it looks like (Linus & OSX) as long as it "operates" just like and operating system should do.

Tin (Senior Forumologist):

Quoting nightstep:
as long as it "operates" just like and operating system should do.

Which hasn't been a strong point for Windows lately.
I'm actually disturbed to see quite a number of visual things copied from other OSes. Not simply due to them being copied, but because it's a strong sign MS care more about the look than the behaviour. Which is a sign they don't care about what we want to do with our PCs.
At the end of the day, I don't care what MS do. If the OS sucks, I won't be using it much.

Sionnach (New user):

The speil given by MicroSoft on their new OS, Windows 7, is all very wel, BUT, will it really outdo XP for all round compatability and user friendliness.
True, some of the Vista features are really good, but the whole OS fails to impress when driver issues still continue this long after Vistas' release. I for one will stick with XP untill V7 proves itself.

wenoitsu (New user):

It's a tossup between legacy issues and new
things with cogs flying out take your pick :)

One wonders if they increased R&D and took
more time if needs be start from the kernel up
again got everything as stable as possible.

Ok 2k3 wasn't the best example perhaps but
currently it's what the training partners
of MS are mainly focusing on that and XP.

But many prior versions had similar issues
and everything is always push to shove to get it out the
door cos the corporate spying whingers want it now
you said now so it should be now and have a big
hissy fit.

Personally i wouldn't mind if they took ten years
to knockup the next "Decent" OS oh boy the sharks
are circling on that comment.

Drivers for any MS OS has been a primary issue
and they're all just as bad as each other because
beloved .inf and .dll (and others)seem to have this extremely
high mortallity rate well all files do windows
just loves corrupting itself.

Good example some types of USB modem drivers
and even some PCI ones were nortorious.

Probably because things get hammered daily
as anyone who's suffered RADIUS authentication
issues or similar has discovered.

Everything can look right but be stuffed if it
will work upon deleting and replacing or making
new oh will you look at that the dam thing works.

I know next to nothing about this things but
it's all getting to slap dash people have to start
taking pride in they're work and you can't do that
under tight schedules or badly designed things
they rely on to do they're task.

Take a breather MS you've earnt one regardless
of what the whingers say.

Some of us are just glad MS stuck around this long :)

It got the *nix world to push forward and boy have they what.

Now with all this virtual hyper threading multi core
CPU departing from platform x86 sorry patented information
unavailable please try again later when this things obsolete.

Fair dinkum it's all to much :)

schmoeleco (New user):

If this does not work for MS, Will Bill come back in to save the day, or will Steve go to Washington in a hybrid to beg money for a bailout?

rolando985 (New user):

As per usual, The OS will be buggy and useless until you upgrade, then they replace it. If you have an old PC u urge you to put a good KDE linux on it.