Longhorn

[mightyjlr]

Longhorn

I really hope this is what the new Windows OS looks like. Wow. I thought XP was ugly, but now Microsoft is going out of its way to ruin the user interface. I have been a windows user all of my life, and still use it, but I can't see myself using this. Anyone else think this is the ugliest UI they've ever seen?

[GulGnu]

Well, I'd hold off on judgement of the look of the GUI - usually that's the last thing to be finalized. What worries me about Longhorn is all that DRM goodness MS is stuffing it with... And if Apple goes all DRM too, well... Hopefully, by then Linux will be a useful desktop OS...

Regards / GulGnu

-Stabil som fan!

[Captain Code]

MS is obsessed with that horrible blue colour.

[ksv]

Originally posted by Captain Code
MS is obsessed with that horrible blue colour.

yea, and they seem to like mixing it with the colors it goes the least good together with.

[toast]

The only thing I notice about the screenshot posted by mightyjlr is the following: I don't understand a damn thing of what's going on.
And true, this blue obsession is sickening.

Longhorn will be, IMHO, a perfect Microsoft product. Falsely elegant, falsely practical, falsely new.

[Stridder44]

Gee guys. It looks alot like WindowsXP...except everything seems flatter and well, ALOT more blue-ish. Oh! And there is that side bar off to the right. *sigh* I wonder if Microsoft will ever come out with a completly new OS.

Speaking of different OS's...maybe one day there will be an OS that looks Completly different from any other OS out there. One that doesnt have a menu bar or stores files differently than in "folders", like most all OS's use now-a-days (not to say that the current OS with it's menu bars and folders arn't efficent...I like them that way.) Heh, Im thinking way into the future....

[Dominyo]

I've heard of a couple OS's in development attempting to shift the computing paradigm away from desktops and files and folders. Didn't get into specifics, but they sounded interesting.

[Rhino_G3]

Microsoft can't afford to go to an entirely new GUI.

It will alienate 75% of their user base... of course these are the less technicaly inclined 75% but they are users none the less.
These are the people that freak out when a shortcut is missing from their desktop (Don't laugh, it happens quite frequently )

People want the latest and greatest in the OS department, Even thought they don't need it, although they don't want to have to relearn everything that they already know.