FANTASTIC: Windows 7 Build 6956 new boot screen video

[NoneAvail]

umm you guys are easily pleased :p I mean come on it's a freakin' boot screen for crying out loud! There are more important things in an OS then a boot screen, unless you plan to install Win 7 on a very slow PC? :laugh:

Come on man, you gotta understand that Vista didn't come with anything except a bar moving inside another bar.

We want something like this so we can impress those with those funky apples on their computers.

[Xerxes]

Come on man, you gotta understand that Vista didn't come with anything except a bar moving inside another bar.

We want something like this so we can impress those with those funky apples on their computers.

and what was wrong with that? :p I don't see why we must impress the Apple fan club, all they have is a white screen with the Apple logo on it! (last I checked) and they are gonna shoot down whatever MS does anyway :p

[Ci7]

cool :cool:

[Denis W. Veteran]

I think the whole point is they're taking criticism of their fit and finish shortcomings in Vista seriously this time around. If you check the Taskforce sites for Vista and Windows 7, there's a handful of issues reported there that have fixes in build 6801, even small things such as the Visual Effects tab in Performance Options, where the list of options doesn't fill the entire dialog, or even the green teal border some people were complaining about in Vista.

Microsoft may not have complete 100% control of the overall fit and finish of the OS; they are at the hands of OEMs who focus more on hardware sales than the user experience. But they're doing their part, and this revised boot screen is one of them.

[Quillz]

I'm really liking what I see so far. The boot screen looks cool, as does the UI overhaul. I really think Windows 7 is "that OS" we've been waiting for a long time. Putting the Office team onto the Windows team was a great decision, and it shows.

[Paul Paliath]

http://www.geeksmack.net/?p=554

The true source of the news. ;)

It spread pretty fast actually. :p

[Robbie Ride]

Looks like i was right to as if anyone would like to see the boot screen return in Windows 7 and yet no-one thought Micrsosoft would do it..

Looks like my poll will be gaining votes

Windows 7 Boot Screen, Would You Like To See It Return

[Paul Paliath]

If anyone's curious, in my IM convo with Chris123NT about this I asked about how this affects boot time. He says there's no difference.

[Brandon Live Veteran]

i wish there was more to it.... a little nice animation and then it jsut sits there for a few seconds while everything else loads. i kinda want the animation to take as long as the load should assuming you have a pretty fresh install.

The video makes it hard to tell that it's still animating as long as the logo is displayed (it kind of glows/pulses). Plus the Win7 boot up is pretty short anyway and you wouldn't want an animation where part of it gets cut off!

[Denholm]

The new boot screen is very cool (Y)

[Chicane-UK Veteran]

Looks excellent! Watch out though - that site tried to download a .ASPX file to my computer whilst I was watching the video..?

[Windows7even]

Looks excellent! Watch out though - that site tried to download a .ASPX file to my computer whilst I was watching the video..?

gotta watch some of those Chinese sites..sneaky little ******* sometimes...try to install all kinds of crap!

[franzon]

I have Flash Player 10 but I can't see that video :crazy:

but I found a copy of this video on YouTube it works:

[david]

I like it alot! (Y)

[DELTETHISACCOUNT]

Looks like a toned down version of the Playstation 2 bootscreen :p

[Panda X]

If anyone's curious, in my IM convo with Chris123NT about this I asked about how this affects boot time. He says there's no difference.

Paul from GS?

[ToneKnee]

Boot time shouldn't really be that much affected anyways. We have multiple CPU's and faster hardware, stuff like loading multiple devices at the same time should be really fast.

[notuptome2004]

well one reason windows 7 is to boot faster is that it will have loaded alot of devices and drivers up before windows have even got to the desktop so that everything is ready

[spacer]

Probably the most useless feature they've announced for Windows 7. It's just a boot screen people. Who the hell cares what it looks like.

[-KJ]

I'm sorry, and I really don't mean to threadcrap, but why do you guys really care what a bootscreen looks like?

I reboot my box about every patch tuesday, and that's really it. It takes about 20 seconds.

Knives could stab me in the eyeballs that often and I wouldn't care. :laugh:

Really care? No. But I was interested how it looks like now.

And just FYI, there are many people out there who shut their computers down every day.

They won't care to stare at the boot screen. But who would say no to an improvement? ;)

[LTD]

OMG WOW!!!!

Hehe, just kidding guys. Nice bootscreen for a change. Very purty.

[George P Global Moderator]

Sure it's just a bootscreen, and doesn't mean much. BUT, I believe it shows the difference in a few things, first is performance, and 2nd is the fact they've changed the boot process itself.

It looks like video drivers and other core things load early, and overall faster now. The fact it's animated and not some basic picture like before shows that much.

They've also said they've done this type of work back at WinHEC from what I remember, and it's showing here.

[Ambroos]

If the video drivers are loaded they should only now let it run at Windows' resolution and try to avoid the flash of black before the logon screen, so the animation from bootscreen to login is smooth. Can't be too hard.

[notuptome2004]

i am sure that is what they are doing but prolly still have a slab of small 1/2 sec of black but i am sure over time they will make it more seamlessly transioned or so. with all the drivers and devices loading up before windows is loaded makes alot of since i mean this is how things worked in longhorn if i remeber right before the desktop the alpha builds would display all services and drivers that are loading

[ViZioN]

Cool boot screen!