Windows 7 Screenshots

:wink: Microsoft Confirms Windows 7 for 2010 :wink:

This blog and this site has some screenshots from Windows 7, which is planned for release in 2010. Some are old news and some are new to me. I get a “Vista Aero” vibe from it but some of the features look pretty nifty.







more at here:
http://wepokers.blogspot.com/2008/05/microsoft-confirms-windows-7-for-2010.html
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/win7_6519.asp

Windows 7 (formerly known as Blackcomb and Vienna) is the working name for the next major version of Microsoft Windows as the successor of Windows Vista. Microsoft has announced that it is "scoping Windows 7 development to a three-year timeframe", and that "the specific release date will ultimately be determined by meeting the quality bar." Windows 7 is expected to be released sometime in 2010. The client versions of Windows 7 will ship in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. A server variant, codenamed Windows Server 7, is also under development.

Microsoft is maintaining a policy of silence concerning discussion of plans and aspirations for Windows 7 as they focus on the release and marketing of Windows Vista, stating that Microsoft does not want to promise features and then fail to deliver, as happened with Windows Vista Ultimate, though some early details of various core operating system features have emerged. As a result, little is known about the feature set, though public presentations from company officials have disseminated information about some features. Leaked information from people to whom Milestone 1 (M1) of Windows 7 was shipped also provides some insight into the feature set.

Game On People,
-Gophn

 

It will look absolutely nothing like that when it's done.

Early Vista (Longhorn) shots: http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/longhorn_4015.asp

 

By the time windows 7 is out, Ubuntu will have already been all over the place.

 

I like these prototypes better than the early ones. Anyways, it looks like eye candy overload!

Anyways, Linux is the best in that regard...

 

I want powergloves.

 

Windows 7 will have nothing revolutionary. Again, you will have a taskbar, "enhanced" Aero windows, and software and driver conflicts. But not Windows Flip, it called Windows 3D, their updated way of finding windows. They will include a more intelligent and streamlined version of UAC and more security features. Maybe they will actually incorporate the new Windows filesystem and incorporate the new kernel, Minwin. Windows will finally run faster than ever before.

 

Yeah they do the GUI last in development. I hope they will get WinFS in it this time around. I think they should just go 64 bit with Windows 7, but at least the server version will be 64 bit only.

 

As far as I'm concerned, they ought to focus on a streamlined OS, and then work out several functional, attractive GUIs.

 

Screw that. Go back to command lines.

Let the OS weed out the weak and stupid. No more "this sucks, that sucks", just "haha, you're to dumb to use a computer".

 

They need to start over, with all new code....

 

Is pretty much is all new code.

 

They can't, if they did that then apps wouldn't have compatibility with the buggy old code and people would want to switch over to Linux.

 

Hahahahahahahaha! Boy, that's a good one! Thanks, I needed a good laugh.

 

I saw a presentation about Win Min and if they stick with that and build from there they should be alright. Plus they will essentially be using the Server 2008 code as a base and while I haven't gotten to try it yet, I heard it is very nice.

 

If that's the case, let them do it!

 

I would totally agree, but I think the weak and stupid present such a sizeable market, OS producers can't resist the profit margins.

 

And that, my friend, is the only reason why I don't rule the world.

Didn't feel like making another post, so I'm responding to the future (one of my other amazing powers).

By the time Windows 7 is released, everything will be x64. It will be many, many years before we can exhaust 64-bit computing.

It's f-ing amazing, lemme tell ya.

 

i'd like to see it be 64 bit only too but i think 64 bit hasn't been out long enough to be "mainstream". i think one resolution could be to charge more for 32 bit OS this time. not the greatest idea, but i'd like to see 64 bit and 128 bit get here faster.

 

Windows 7 appears to be designed to distract users from working.

 

I don't see any difference with vista.

 

How did you do that Lithus?!

 

The GUI is the last to develop.

 

I predict 10 GB to use the OS

 

I've always simply accepted the old "backwards compatibility" argument from MS at face value, but recently I've been mulling it over a bit and, while no doubt I'm not the brightest bulb in the bunch, it strikes me that this argument is a bit ... facetious - I mean, exactly who are all these poor beknighted users for whom MS must bend over backwards to keep compatibility? It sure isn't myself or those I know; when I went from WinME to WinXP, nothing came with me other than jpegs, mpegs, and various documents, none of which has given me any backwards sass.

About the only groups of users I can think of who would satisfy MS' argument are large corporate and government users, like the FAA, which as far as I can tell needs systems that are backwards compatible to ENIAC. If that's the case (and I'm sure I'll be corrected if I'm wrong - go ahead, I'm used to it by now ), then it's a crying shame; I don't mind saying that retarding the development of a stand-alone/consumer OS for the sake of an entirely different, discrete set of users is, well, retarded.

I've no doubt that, unless MS manages to defy its own track record and hits a grand-slam home run with Win7, on all fronts, and on time, they can basically say goodbye to a large chunk of their market base; by 2012 or 2014 (when security support for non-commercial versions of _Vista and XP, respectively, runs out) I have no doubt that there will be one or more linux variants more than capable of taking care of business if MS footfaults by even an inch in 2010.

 

TOTALLY AGREES!!! MS-DOS was the stablest OS Microsoft came out with to date.

 

We should have google to make their own OS and block yahoo and windows search.

 

If we've still got 2 years to go, I can guarantee that 7 will look nothing like those screenshots. Wait until sometime next year for some more legitimate photos to come out.

 

i hope everything is 64 by the time 7 is released. i could see a bunch of old schoolers holding it back though because of that old trusty desktop that still works fine and the why should i have to get a new computer attitude stalling the market.

 

I don't understand you guys, I went 3 times to see the screenshots, what is so special about them? I don't see any revolutionary idea behind it, so why should I be frustrated about?

 

There really is no excuse to not be 64bit by then. Intel has been 64bit since 2006 and AMD even longer. And if your system or other components can't do 64bit then don't upgrade.

 

You aren't going to see anything special with screenshots yet, maybe a few GUI tweaks here and there. Most of the work is being done under the hood right now.

 

No body is ambracing 64, how many fun applications are out there? You can count them with the fingers of your hands.

 

Ok, that's what is worth to talk about, but I wil be accused of hickjacking the thread

 

Yea, looks promising, but I have to say...some of those buttons are really big. I guess they're presuming that we'll all be blind by then from our constant computer usage.

 

Adobe is making a push with 64 bit in the next version of Photoshop. If programmers aren't forced to support 64 bit then they won't. Sometimes you need to light a fire under their ass.

 

Yeah, and who cares about watching big HDD's flying????????

 

I think the thread is just in general a discussion about Windows 7 than the screenshots. There is very little known about the OS so far and I think that's what Microsoft wants to do. If consumers don't know what to expect they won't complain if features get dropped. We were promised WinFS in Vista, but it got dropped which didn't please many people. I think they are taking a hint from Apple and keeping it tight lipped.

 

Lol and wheels of fortune...not bashing though, I can't wait for it to come.

 

Another freaking 32bit OS. Get with the program, MS.

 

I'm just afraid that they continue building on the same old code, and building a bulkier OS, just look at Vista how much memory it eats, I tell you, MS works closely with the RAM's manuf. so they make more money on us.

 

Yes, Microsoft is the one who invented Moore's Law...

Oh Darwinism, why aren't thy more potent?!

 

Hahahahaha, Lol, Lol, I shoulnd't laugh that much, I'm a monkey myself after all.

 

I think I heard somewhere that it'll be built from the ground up...whether that is true or not is unknown.

 

It was built from the ground up. Second time I've said this.

Building from the ground up takes years, ain't no abracadabra BS going on here.

Windows 7 is a continuation on Longhorn, which sorta broke away from Vista. We're talking multiple paths to different OSes, but all are built from the ground up, over many, many years.

 

microsoft has been saying that for awhile. they really do need to go 64 bit only though. they're holding the market back.

 

We'll see, anyway, I'm going to bed and have nightmares with the real GUI they will come out in 2010, g'night all.

 

If they go to 64-bit only, people will just be saying "Microsoft Sucks, forcing consumers to upgrade".

Microsoft is constantly stuck between a rock and a hard place while Steve Jobs waves his reality distortion field around and everyone goes cucko-cucko for Cocoa Puffs. I can't believe the number of people who are ignorant to this. It's all about public image - if people like you, everything you do will be god's word and received in mass. If people don't like you, your cure for cancer just killed 20 billion unborn infants and may you burn in hell.

Everyone needs to take one of them new Pepsi whatevers. WAKE UP PEOPLE.

 

Instead of call it Windows 7, they should call it Windows BS, and you can get also Windows BS Ultimate or CheckMAte

 

I'm pretty sure that if MS doesn't step up the plate this time Open Source is gonna become a problem for them, just like how Firefox is slowly on the path to owning IE.

 

MS BS. has a nice ring to it.