Oh c'mon, the slashdot story just links to someone's blog, and suggests that screenshots aren't revealing any significant changes. Doh! I thought at least you guys here would be smart enough to realize what's going on here, this isn't anything significant and there aren't any facts here.
Also, Calum's rant about security and the "new desktop design" thing. Those two are obviously not related, the article doesn't try to say they have something to do with each others. The article isn't talking about security in the first half, it's talking about the new Windows. Your interpretations are yours only, and if you come up with crap that doesn't make sense, it doesn't have anything to do with windows. Apparently this doesn't bother you one bit, you aren't interested about the windows release, you're just trying to use every possible chance to badmouth it. Even when there's no reason to. Due to this, it will mean nothing when you badmouth it when there actually is a reason, because you have shown no skill to distinguish the difference.
This is all very very subjective, but I suppose it wouldn't be fun if you had to look at things objectively. You might have to admit things you don't want to.