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-Well the user icons have a brand new look to them, I doubt they would get updated.. < may be a few minor changes, nothing major >

-for walpapers I think more high res. photos would be nice,

-as with the sounds I hope its something fresh and nothing like the "space" start up sound back in 95.

I said space because it reminds me of space....;)

wow that is confusing, looks even scary at first glance.

I don't get why microsoft has to put that many icons in control pannel. They can group icons together. ( no, i'm not talking about the catagory view )

but it may also be the versons that the screen shot is . such as ultiamte...

Heres a question:

If microsoft did updated the add font box, how do you see it looking like?

  • keep it the same look, just update the folder icons
  • scrap the entire dialog box and re do it from scratch
  • or something else.....

what are some of your opinions on this?

Yep defo preview for the fonts, aint vista suppose to be a new generation of windows, you peeps are right any signs of win 3.1 and xp just gives me a bad feeling each time, its mixing old with new, not good. Dam we gone oftopic anyway this build looks sweet hopefully we ge RC1 soon to fiddle with..

I agree, and they need to let go of the "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"

that seems a bit pre school....;)

They use that sentence because it contains all 26 letters of the english alphabet. So it makes since for them to keep it so you can see what each letter looks like. :yes:

They could change it to one of:

How razorback-jumping frogs can level six piqued gymnasts! (49 letters) (Used for font samples by the Macintosh, System 7 era)

Crazy Fredericka bought many very exquisite opal jewels. (48 letters)

Sixty zippers were quickly picked from the woven jute bag. (48 letters)

John Prady, give me a black walnut box of quite small size. (47 letters)

Six big devils from Japan quickly forgot how to waltz. (44 letters)

My girl wove six dozen plaid jackets before she quit. (43 letters)

Cozy lummox gives smart squid who asks for job pen. (41 letters) (Used for font samples by the Macintosh, post-System 7)

Adjusting quiver and bow, Zompyc killed the fox.(39 letters)

My faxed joke won a pager in the cable TV quiz show. (39 letters)

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. (35 letters) (Used by Windows as sample text)

The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog. (33 letters)

The jay, pig, fox, zebra and my wolves quack! (33 letters)

Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs. (32 letters) (Used for font samples by Beagle Bros)

Few quips galvanized the mock jury box. (32 letters)

Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz. (31 letters) (Used by Windows XP as sample text when viewing certain fonts)

The five boxing wizards jump quickly. (31 letters) (Used by XXDiff as sample text)

How quickly daft jumping zebras vex. (30 letters)

Two driven jocks help fax my big quiz. (30 letters)

Bright vixens jump; dozy fowl quack. (29 letters)

Quick wafting zephyrs vex bold Jim. (29 letters)

Quick zephyrs blow, vexing daft Jim. (29 letters)

Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow. (29 letters)

Waltz, bad nymph, for quick jigs vex. (28 letters)

Brick quiz whangs jumpy veldt fox. (28 letters)

I'm useing beta 2 5384. and just to point out, in the Clasic start menu options we still have 9x and xp era icons:

clasicstartmenule1.th.png

did this get updated? i know its not that huge of a deal but just wondering...

I think it has...not sure though. 5384 is old hat pretty much.

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