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Title: newest screencaps of Longhorn
Post by: bwid_s_01 on 21 August 2003, 23:11: http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/longhorn_aero.asp (http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/longhorn_aero.asp)
Title: newest screencaps of Longhorn
Post by: Laukev7 on 21 August 2003, 23:22: Oh, god. It looks even worse than before.
Title: newest screencaps of Longhorn
Post by: jasonlane on 21 August 2003, 23:32: I'm still sure the is a design principle about to much blue on screen....I must find it.

Looks even more Ficher Price to me, I mean how clunky can they get???
Title: newest screencaps of Longhorn
Post by: Refalm on 22 August 2003, 01:03: It looks better from a designer point-of-view. Less blue, transparant toolbars.

But the rest is shit. Longhorn is pumped full with useless crap and looks like an overgrown Windows Media Player. You might as well call it "Microsoft Windows Media Player 10", just as you've might as well called Windows ME "Internet Explorer 7".

Just look at this (http://www.winsupersite.com/images/showcase/lh-winhec-03.png) one. 80 GHz of RAM? Sure... I guess you get super-ultra-DDR-RAM v. 6.66 bundled when you buy Windows Longhorn Professional...

And what's up with that "Professional" crap? At least Microsoft tried to form a little difference in with Windows XP between the "Home" and "Professional" edition. But Longhorn's Professional edition looks like Fisherprise to me. How am I supposed to do professional things like rendering 3D movies, Photoshopping etc. when all those useless Microsoft crap keeps hogging up the recourses. Microsoft should make Longhorn more light-weight before trying to sell this useless piece of crap.
Title: newest screencaps of Longhorn
Post by: cahult on 22 August 2003, 01:23: Those icons for music are a 100 % ripoff of Apple
Title: newest screencaps of Longhorn
Post by: raptor on 22 August 2003, 02:09: get ready for windows to take up more of your HD space. :rolleyes:

[ August 21, 2003: Message edited by: raptor ]
Title: newest screencaps of Longhorn
Post by: raptor on 22 August 2003, 02:11: quote:
Originally posted by Laukev 7.5:
Oh, god. It looks even worse than before.

did it look tolerable before?
Title: newest screencaps of Longhorn
Post by: Laukev7 on 22 August 2003, 03:03: quote:
did it look tolerable before?

I saw it and used it myself. It was not pretty. I thought it might improve after a few versions, but it's even uglier (if that's even possible). I got a headache just looking at the interface to take screenshots. I'm not kidding.

I thought about reviewing it, but I don't want to help them with my feedback until it's finished.
Title: newest screencaps of Longhorn
Post by: raptor on 22 August 2003, 04:50: since you used it, how are all the new features that(longhorn)claims to have?

or is it still XP? Microsoft said they were rebuilding from the ground up, and not basing Longhorn off of XP. So is it the same, have anythings improved at all?

[ August 21, 2003: Message edited by: raptor ]
Title: newest screencaps of Longhorn
Post by: Laukev7 on 22 August 2003, 06:00: No. It is Blackcomb they are remaking from scratch. Longhorn is based on NT, like XP. And there's not much improvement. Also, it takes 1.8 gigs and is VERY slow and clunky. The interface is huge and bulky, even on a 17" screen; it's almost unusable with a resolution lower than 1024x768.

Here are some of my comments on Longhorn:

http://forum.microsuck.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=2&t=000670 (http://forum.microsuck.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=2&t=000670)
Title: newest screencaps of Longhorn
Post by: Canadian Lover on 22 August 2003, 20:26: boy that looks SCARY!
Title: newest screencaps of Longhorn
Post by: Refalm on 22 August 2003, 22:04: Nah, Longhorn isn't Windows Media Player 10. It's "Windows Media Center 3 PC version".
Title: newest screencaps of Longhorn
Post by: xyle_one on 22 August 2003, 23:50: it looks like shit. needs less clutter, and more thought put into the logic of its interface. I will never buy longhorn, or download a ripped copy. longhorn will never go onto any of my computers. rar.
Title: newest screencaps of Longhorn
Post by: suselinux on 23 August 2003, 04:50: I've got the new Long Horn Slogan:

Looks like XP to me!
Title: newest screencaps of Longhorn
Post by: Laukev7 on 23 August 2003, 05:04: I prefer 'It's just a lot of bull'. Classic, but always funny.
Title: newest screencaps of Longhorn
Post by: CaptainCool on 24 August 2003, 08:40: I installed a version of LongHorn just to check it out and it's true what you say about the useless crap. I dont know what M$ built into LH but with a clean install it was using around 286 mb of main ram and was slow as hell. I then began to format and remove that foul shit.