Screenshots of longhorn

[vanguard]

Ok, I know this is "mac" os news and rumours but a lot of people around here still have an interest in what msft is doing.

Here are some pictures.

http://www.tech-critic.com/modules.p...rder=0&thold=0

My opinion, they seem fine. I kind of like OSX better and I have a preference for unix. So I'll probably stick with apple. (Now if only their notebooks came with three mouse buttons.)

Vanguard

PS It's important to note that the UI will probably change before anything is released. Still, this is what it looks like now.

[Rhino_G3]

It does seem to be fairly interesting. One thing that I like is the taskbar with the label "Desktop 1"

More than one desktop?

[Urbansory]

umm, lol, did anyone else notice the girl in the bluejeasn.jpg??? MSFT entering a new business?

[Ricky]

Seen in the XP login screen
Windows XP Professional
Codename: Longhorn

Seen on the Mac OS X 10.2 box
Mac OS X
Version 10.2 Jaguar

Apple starts another trend of including codenames in the final releases.

[kendall]

Originally posted by Ricky
Apple starts another trend of including codenames in the final releases.

Uhm, yeah. Silly Microsoft copying Apple again.

That explains why Windows 95 was Chicago, 98 was Cairo, 2000 was Memphis and XP was Whistler.

All Microsoft OSs have codenames. Blackcomb is after Longhorn. Neither make much sense so I doubt they'll be debuting on the final product.

One thing is certain though. Longhorn is going to give OS X a run for it's money and Blackcomb is going to crush it.

I'm not saying that based on screenshots either. If you read about the technology going into both OSs, they are rather quite amazing.

[ManicDevlin]

Itanium, Blackcomb has been scrapped, where have you been living these past year?

Longhorn will be out by the end of 2004. So long way to go, so these screenshots shouldn't even be considered worthy. But they are real shots.

[kendall]

Originally posted by ManicDevlin
Itanium, Blackcomb has been scrapped, where have you been living these past year?

Longhorn will be out by the end of 2004. So long way to go, so these screenshots shouldn't even be considered worthy. But they are real shots.

Who said Blackcomb is scrapped? Longhorn was originally intended to be an upgrade to XP.

Now it has taken on a life of it's own and will probably be an intermediate release between XP and Blackcomb, like ME was to 98 and 2000.

Microsoft has pushed the release date back and focused on developing it more because of the flack it's getting from the Department of Justic. I think they're being very careful to comply with the DoJ wishes, or at least appear is if they are.

As for the screenshots, I don't think they're real. Similar pictures were presented months ago with that funky taskbar and were later discovered to be fake.

[ManicDevlin]

Dood, wake up, BLACKCOMB HAS BEEN SCRAPPED.

Longhorn will be the next OS, and THERE WILL NOT BE AN XP SECOND EDITION.

And the shots are real, there are even VIDEOS of this build, just to prove newbies like you it's real.

And the people who leaked this build ARE MS employees, they will release the leak to the public, but not now, cause it's frankly too dangerous. That is why they made a mistake posting these pictures. I think they did it because there was alot of fake screenshots going around, and they wanted to shut up those sites which were promoting fake shots to get site popularity.