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Um... ew.

MattElmore wrote:

You're right. That is awful.

Even beyond typical reactionary mac-guy anti-microsoft attitudes. Longhorn looks awful.

I was reminded forcibly of a candy-coated version of Linux.

And yet again, m$ throws useless smurf at their problems instead of fixing them.

Microsoft is proud to present Longhorn - The new Black Theme for Wind... Ahem....  - The new operating system that will completely change the way you work!  No longer will you be constrained by the Blue, Silver or Olive themes currently available in Windows XP!  And Microsofts patented transparency technology will make multitasking a breeze, with it's unique ability to display hundreads of transparent maximized programs simultaneously.  Got the urge to search?  Microsoft Windows XP's new active indexing search engine will make searching for files and photos faster than ever. **

** Note that there is a small hacking organization called Google (more commonly referred to as g00gLe in the hacking underworld) who offers a free utility similar to Microsoft's searching component.  For security reasons we have disabled this, and all other Google utilities from Longhorn and all future versions of Microsoft Windows.  We believe this to be the primary security threat in Windows XP, and by disabling it's function in Longhorn, as well as reducing a user's default access privelages, we can confidently proclaim Longhorn as the most secure OS ever.

Agh, will someone please kill the start menu? You should never have to go to the same button to do everything.

The first image I clicked on has a pop up window in the lower right corner that say:

"Your computer might be at risk".



Yeah, I'll say.  At risk because your running a vulnerable, poorly designed, insecure OS known as Windows!

How come you have to click start to shut down? It just doesn't make sense.

Worst Os Ever....

Czachorski wrote:

then below that, it says, "click this balloon to fix the problem.  I wonder if you click on the balloon, if they ship you a Mac??

No it loads up the biggest, most annoying POS applet evar! The security center. Its in longhorn just like in good ol' SP2.

To give the guys credit they are finally, finally, yes finally moving to a permissions policy that does assume the person using the computer is an admin. Of course its taken um, gee, a really really long time for that one to sink in and see the light of day. I always figured XP would have it, as I was sure MS wouldn't ship the first consumer version of NT in the manner they did.

I'm also hoping this god forbidden UI is just a technical demo of the gpu driven gui framework, which I'm sure it is considering the other alphas before this were very similiar. We'll know by RC1 and if RC1 looks like this.. dude I'm jumping ship.

NAG wrote:

I think pcguy explained that. He said that you are starting a task that shuts everything down.

Still doesn't make sense.

What the hell is up with the transparent windows.  Damn that smurf is hard to read!

I was talking to a friend yesterday (who is an avid Windows user but is currently in love with an old 500Mhz iMac I gave him) and we were trying to figure just what new things are going to be in Longhorn now that WinFS and some other major technology have been stripped out.  We concluded pretty much the same thing but a new theme or two.  Looks like we might be right.

Bah!

Didn't you all see the small magnifying glass icon on the bottom of the start menu? I'll bet that's some sort of state of the art file searching ability that will instantly find any file on your hard drive based on meta data! The future is now! (or late 2006.)

Last edited by MuckSavage (2005-07-11 10:30 pm)