New Windows 7 Screenshots

[Guest xiphi]

I have to say that those screenshots look very nice. It's also a very positive thing that MS is updating paint, wordpad, calc and other basic windows apps and giving them a more modern look.

I do however thing that its looking more and more "busy", meaning that all those screenshots just show an OS that is trying to do shove every single option they can think into your screen. The OS is becoming complicated beyond the need.

It's nowhere near as busy as XP used to be. Honestly, I'm having a hard time understanding most of the complaints about the "user friendliness" and "prettyness", because I think Vista/7 is doing both of those pretty well.

This is the last chance to make something,Microsoft is more and more desperate, they know apple is going up next to them . As i said,this is the last chance to make someting . I don't know who's ideea was to make the advertaisement clips ...but it just shows how bad this is for microsoft, vista failed , NT7 must be diferent...a man can only hope :)

and ps : the clips are lame :p

In what way is Vista a failure? I'm curious as to what that would make Mac OS X by comparison. A catastrophe?

[RvXtm]

this is not the right place to compare osx to windows ... and the two shouldn't be compared :)

Vista was a failure from start because people were not ready ,the systems were not ready. Compatibility problems , inconsistent UI ,and today,after some time from the lunch ,80% of my clients go for XP PRO and server 2003. I use vista,and MAC ,and linux ,so i'm not fan of any os :) perfection is impossible when talking about software

[Commodore Max]

that's all it's going to be there'll be minimal changes to UX and more under the hood then anything.

Not necessarily. Look at every early build of Windows. XP still had the older Win9x theme until late in development. Longhorn looked like XP in the milestone builds. I'm not saying there's gonna be major changes. It's possible there won't be any on the UX side of things. But it's too early to tell.

[thealexweb]

Are microsoft still planning to bundle silverlight in this, i remember the distributed silverlight through a small version of windows embedded a few months ago.

[Niels.]

OMG, Calc.exe now has a programming programmer mode! :woot: I'm sold!

Edited September 20, 2008 by Niels.

[Jamushroom Veteran]

Wow.. I'm liking the glow effect on the start button. The new features in Calculator are also very nice :)

[Denis W. Veteran]

Am I the only one thinking Windows 7's UI would be what the Win9x UIs were to each other - not a significant change, but Aero tweaked and cleaned up?

Speaking of Aero, I find it funny they're abandoning client area glass in their applications, for instance Media Player. Maybe they realized drawing text with blurry shadows on blurred glass was a bad idea.

Otherwise, this UI looks pretty nice and polished even for a pre-beta. :)

[RvXtm]

Any guess for Beta 1 date ?

[Unknown_97784568745]

Any guess for Beta 1 date ?

December 2008

[Sem XL]

personally i hope they give you the option of having the old style start menu

and i really hated that light blue colour they used everywhere in vista

i hope they change that to the silver like in some of the screenshots or at least let you change it to something you like and it effects the whole UI not just parts of it like in vista :rolleyes:

the UI was one of the biggest criticisms of vista i hope for their sake they get it right this time...

[tsupersonic]

Looks alright, but as many people have said, this probably won't be much like the final version.

[Numpad]

sod this, i wanna keep xp!! i'm too old to re-learn how to do things! lol

[TruckWEB]

I am still not impress. Oh yeah, nice new calc, ribbons galore! But is that it? Is Win7 a cosmetic change to Vista with ribbons?

What ever happened to innovation?

[tsupersonic]

I am still not impress. Oh yeah, nice new calc, ribbons galore! But is that it? Is Win7 a cosmetic change to Vista with ribbons?

What ever happened to innovation?

How much more mature can OS's get? Look at Apple, all they're doing is fixing security issues, and very minor things. I'm sure there is new features in Windows 7, we just have to wait to see how it develops

[Tech Star]

How much more mature can OS's get? Look at Apple, all they're doing is fixing security issues, and very minor things. I'm sure there is new features in Windows 7, we just have to wait to see how it develops

That is because Apple releases every couple of years. Microsoft took 6 years to get Windows Vista out, and I not saying that 7 will take just as long though.

[giga Veteran]

How much more mature can OS's get? Look at Apple, all they're doing is fixing security issues, and very minor things. I'm sure there is new features in Windows 7, we just have to wait to see how it develops

...just security issues?

[Mikee99]

I am still not impress. Oh yeah, nice new calc, ribbons galore! But is that it? Is Win7 a cosmetic change to Vista with ribbons?

What ever happened to innovation?

You do realize that you are judging the final product before it even hit beta, and before there have been any major feature announcements, right?

[cswimbound]

...just security issues?

Obviously some people have no clue what new OSX releases bring lol - and it's not just security fixes ;)

[Quillz]

I am still not impress. Oh yeah, nice new calc, ribbons galore! But is that it? Is Win7 a cosmetic change to Vista with ribbons?

What ever happened to innovation?

Microsoft innovated with both Vista and Office 2007. And people complained because both were too different from before. Now Windows 7 will look and feel very much like Vista, and people complain because it's more of the same.

[zhangm Supervisor]

I am still not impress. Oh yeah, nice new calc, ribbons galore! But is that it? Is Win7 a cosmetic change to Vista with ribbons?

What ever happened to innovation?

Microsoft moves slowly due to the hardware base that they need to support. Consequently, Apple's developers can move much faster - if Microsoft allowed 7's newest features to leak, you'd see them in Apple's next OS before 7 shipped.

[The Rev]

Anyone expecting big interface leaps really needs to be patient. UI is likely to be unchanged or finalised until pretty late in to the beta process. Functionality is key before aesthetics.

Which to me seems like a mistake, like in the case of vista, appearance made a big difference in performance. They really should consider bringing the new UI changes a little closer to the start of the alpha/beta phase rather than last minute.

[splicer707]

Some videos have now been added.

That glowing Start menu gem is terrific! :woot:

Looks alright, but as many people have said, this probably won't be much like the final version.

I think you are totally right on. By the time Windows 7 ships it will probably have these and many other really amazing improvements.

[goji]

Which to me seems like a mistake, like in the case of vista, appearance made a big difference in performance. They really should consider bringing the new UI changes a little closer to the start of the alpha/beta phase rather than last minute.

But you've seen the new Ribbon. I highly doubt the GUI will change from Vista, its here to stay I feel. If anything it will be refined from what Vista didn't catch, and hopefully refines it for a more consistent presentation.

[TruckWEB]

How much more mature can OS's get? Look at Apple, all they're doing is fixing security issues, and very minor things. I'm sure there is new features in Windows 7, we just have to wait to see how it develops

Take a look here :

http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/300.html

300+ New Features. And that's what you call only security fix?

[thealexweb]

Take a look here :

http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/300.html

300+ New Features. And that's what you call only security fix?

Just looking through that list, 6 of these "new" features are screensavers! If Microsoft used the same sort of setup desricing it's new features there could many many times more.