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Forgive me, for I have sinned.

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Laukev7:
Screenshots pending. Please stand by...

(Oh, did I mention that Longhorn is crawling on my 1 GHz Pentium 3 PC?)

Stryker:
Where did u download it from? I hear all this talk but have seen it nowhere.

Laukev7:
eMule. By the way, the screenshots are coming soon. I am having problems sending the screenshots to my Geocities webhost (which is no wonder, given the system I'm using!)

Edit: OK, here goes.

http://members.cox.net/skyman/pics/mirror/longhorn/desktop.png

This is the default 800x600 appearance of Windows Longhorn, right before I threw up on the screen.

http://members.cox.net/skyman/pics/mirror/longhorn/startmenu.png

I think this menu's even larger than the XP one.

http://members.cox.net/skyman/pics/mirror/longhorn/wmplayer.png

Windoze Media Player, as clunky as ever. Notice that there are TWO huge top bars and TWO sets of resize/minimise/close buttons. Of course, with the usual intelligent content of MSN.

http://members.cox.net/skyman/pics/mirror/longhorn/expanded-sm.png

Things can get quite messy at 'low' resolutions. And that shot was taken on a 17" screen...

http://members.cox.net/skyman/pics/mirror/longhorn/my-comp.png

'My Computer'. Should be relabeled 'All your computers are belong to us'.

http://members.cox.net/skyman/pics/mirror/longhorn/wmplayer1024.png

This is a screenshot taken at 1024x768. Even at that resolution, thing can get very cluttered. Microsoft should copy on Apple (again); they really could use the Expos

skyman8081:
:D   amn your our of bandwidth, I can't see the last
:image.    :(  
:
:but from the first se7en images longhorn looks ugly-ass.
:MS has stooled to new lows in the shit-heap to make
:this trowl.

Edit: I am going to set up a mirror for those. (i've got the first seven from my cache and I'm trying to find the html page

[ July 12, 2003: Message edited by: [root@localhost /]$ ]

Laukev7:

quote:Originally posted by M. O'Brien:



This is, I believe, because MS wants to get rid of the traditional file system concept and replace it with a relational database....

More stupid stuff.
--- End quote ---


Exactly, and this looks like a very unsuccessful attempt. I was actually afraid that they surpass the Mac OS with such a technology. But all they've done so far was copy on Apple!

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