bcorman Posted April 27, 2002 Share Posted April 27, 2002 I saw this on the German Windows Beta Site. It's a video showing off an alpha version of Longhorn Build #322. It could be fake but you never know. :) Website http://www.windowsbeta.de/html/index.php3 Video http://home.attbi.com/~betas-script/lh-pre.wmv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prof. Frink Posted April 27, 2002 Share Posted April 27, 2002 fake or not aside, it acts even more like OS X now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatter Posted April 27, 2002 Share Posted April 27, 2002 Is it just me, or is that video EXTREMELY reminiscent of Mac OS X. Dragging windows to the trash bin? Please. It does look genuine though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Posted April 27, 2002 Share Posted April 27, 2002 thank god for translaters http://translate.google.com/translate?u=ht...Flanguage_tools Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Dorr Veteran Posted April 27, 2002 Veteran Share Posted April 27, 2002 to be honest, that looks REAL fake to me.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obraxis Posted April 27, 2002 Share Posted April 27, 2002 I agree - it VERY MacOS X like. MS could have a chance at getting sued over this, if indeed its genuine. I personally thing its got a good chance of being genuine, but id say the odds are 60/40. I do like the new window functions tho :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazzla Veteran Posted April 27, 2002 Veteran Share Posted April 27, 2002 Doesn't look too real, but then again that's just my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hurting101 Posted April 27, 2002 Share Posted April 27, 2002 That does look damn fake indeed. You'd need an awesome computer to run that smoothly... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonWebb Posted April 27, 2002 Share Posted April 27, 2002 It actually looks real to me, comparing it to that old blackcomb video. Draging to the trash can does seem kinda neat actually... It's a nice way to close all the windows instead of clicking each one while holding down ctrl. More importantly, you can see the bar on the left side of the menus. This can only mean one thing..... Windows is gonna get menus like Office XP has!! w00t Jason PS- Only MS would use the clasic scheme to start out with. A faker would at least use the new XP theme. MS is probably working on the base of the GUI first with no skins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obraxis Posted April 27, 2002 Share Posted April 27, 2002 macs arnt THAT much more powerful than pcs, and they do just fine with mac os x's translucency ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazzla Veteran Posted April 27, 2002 Veteran Share Posted April 27, 2002 Originally posted by Obraxis I agree - it VERY MacOS X like. MS could have a chance at getting sued over this, if indeed its genuine. I personally thing its got a good chance of being genuine, but id say the odds are 60/40. I do like the new window functions tho :) The new window function? You can't even tell what it does! What are the 3 seperate windows it splits into for example? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wannabetenor Posted April 27, 2002 Share Posted April 27, 2002 For an alpha build, I think it looks real. Just my opinion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatter Posted April 27, 2002 Share Posted April 27, 2002 Originally posted by Dazzla The new window function? You can't even tell what it does! What are the 3 seperate windows it splits into for example? It looks like they press a 'duplicate" button and a clone of the windows appears on the desktop that you can switch between. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morfious Posted April 27, 2002 Share Posted April 27, 2002 i dont like the way it looks...i also thought that they were making an all 3d gui? or was i just dreaming? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxikk Veteran Posted April 27, 2002 Veteran Share Posted April 27, 2002 "apple idea stealers" hrmmm, i dont know where that came from :evil: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shockz Posted April 27, 2002 Share Posted April 27, 2002 Looks real... but you never know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chipi Posted April 27, 2002 Share Posted April 27, 2002 hell, why would i want to split my window into 3 different windows?! :ermm: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Otto Posted April 27, 2002 Share Posted April 27, 2002 Originally posted by Morfious i dont like the way it looks...i also thought that they were making an all 3d gui? or was i just dreaming? rumors... ms had made a whole 3D environment for a version of windows and rumors began that it was going to be used in longhorn...paul thorutt found out it was false....check out his win super site for more on it. ms is just goin for a better gui not totally 3d yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kusanagi Posted April 27, 2002 Share Posted April 27, 2002 hell, why would i want to split my window into 3 different windows?! For notepad that would be useful I think... :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deryck Posted April 27, 2002 Share Posted April 27, 2002 That does appear to be fake as with the very smooth graphics and a taskbar very similer to the Apple OS X one, why is it not in the Luna theme, but then again, it could be added on later during the building phase. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
User_Deleted Posted April 27, 2002 Share Posted April 27, 2002 Originally posted by Hatter Is it just me, or is that video EXTREMELY reminiscent of Mac OS X. Dragging windows to the trash bin? Please. It does look genuine though. thats what i was thinking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KoL Veteran Posted April 27, 2002 Veteran Share Posted April 27, 2002 real or not I like it :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tesseract Posted April 27, 2002 Share Posted April 27, 2002 Looks real, but you never know, though. If it is indeed real, I have a lot to look forward to. The suspicious thing about it is the cursor: it looks slightly different from the standard one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chipi Posted April 27, 2002 Share Posted April 27, 2002 Originally posted by Kusanagi For notepad that would be useful I think... :) well yeah maybe but u can always click on the shortcut 3 times, and walla! but 3 windows?! same explorer windows?! for what?? drog-and-drop to the same folder? :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrissssssss Posted April 27, 2002 Share Posted April 27, 2002 The mouse also moves around in a very non-person-using-it sort of way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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