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theyarecomingforyou

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God knows why someone even thought this was real. Ha

Indeed. There have been plenty of plausible fakes to date but the features here are simply too geeky and unfriendly to novice users to be genuine.

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Go back and read the source - towards the bottom before the comments:

Update

According to a Microsoft employee on Channel 9 the video is indeed a fake. I have to congratulate the party behind the video; great fake!

Buzz up!

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Ah, but it sounds like a bash coming from an Apple designer... :)

Not really, seeing as though Cara didn't say "Microsoft's design is rubbish" or "MS's UI is never going to look good". She chose her words carefully and just simply, humorously, stated "too bad the real thing will look like a Microsoft product". She only jokingly 'implied' that Microsoft create rubbish designs for Windows, she didn't actually say it ;)

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The features of any piece of software, including an operating system, are more important than the user interface. Thus, the bulk of the features will always get done first, before the user interface. Windows 7 will look similar to Windows Vista for a fair bit longer. Only when most of the features are near completion, they will implement the new user interface.

Right but I also don't know why people expect that Microsoft will completely make the UI unrecognizable in Windows 7 either. IF their promises are true, they plan to update it, but I doubt they'll do completely change it visually

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I'd expect windows 7 is going to look a lot like vista. I doubt they are making a huge visual change because they already did in vista.

Didn't Microsoft said they were thinking of removing the Start menu and using a different method altogether?

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Well since it's not even at Beta 2 now I would disregard any GUI changes at this time as that's when they show the real changes.

However as many have said, I doubt Win7 will look much different than Vista. Maybe that Start menu removed with the circle thing in the middle, but who knows if they'll drop that idea like many others they've said with Vista. I think Win7 will be the Vista we all wanted, thankfully and hopefully it does come out in 2010.

It will probably have many new features, a tweaked UAC control system, Anti-Virus built in, WinFS possibily and who knows what else.

It'll deff be pushing the connecting mobile devices more and more online services for you to purchase (like AV protection, free, reg, plus).

That's my idea anyways, oh and ultimate I don't think they'll bring back as that was a total failure and not even a real need. How is Vista Ultimate better than Home Premium? Whatever happened to those great added features for free for Ultimate users.... hmmm...

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I wouldn't call Ultimate a total failure, but the sad thing is there aren't many great free features that were added towards Ultimate exclusively. An example would be DeskScapes 2.0, which does enhance the desktop by using animated pictures - but makes it available to everyone with Windows Vista, not just Ultimate users (although it comes free for Ultimate users and with a price for everyone else). That's just building on what the last guy said, and animated desktops were a big deal to me :wub: haha.

Alas, we're getting off topic, so I'll stop there. Fake? :)

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Maybe that Start menu removed with the circle thing in the middle, but who knows if they'll drop that idea like many others they've said with Vista.

The what???

The start button is in a corner for a reason. See Fitt's law.

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Oh lawd what is this **** with Windows 7.

Its the next version of Windows. Once you are a Windows enthusiast and the minute a new release of Windows RTM's, its onto whats next. It has worked to Microsoft's benefit over the years, but I think the transparency especially with Longhorn project has made the release seem too ambitious, promise to over deliver but fell through with many of the original promises and things the general public saw at PDC 2003.

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