Windows 7 with screens and vid..

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i originally posted this in this thread
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17830010

but decided it needs its own thread (mods delete if need be)


Microsoft officially announced that Windows 7 will be integrated with their recent TECH-NIFICANT Windows Surface Operating Structure, thus allowing Windows 7 to be WAY MORE than your standard operating system. Touch Screen Monitors will basically be a MUST to get the full potential of Windows 7...thus making the tech-standard "mouse" almost useless for basic operation.


This is the OFFICIAL Windows 7: Codename Vienna

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New DOCKABLE Start Bar *idea based on Longhorn Concept...finally coming to life":

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"Windows Live Blade":

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*RUMORED* Windows 7 Business Edition:

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*RUMORED* Windows 7 Live Edition:

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And some interesting reading here

http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/

and a press release video

 
hmmm, its all a bit minority report, cant see the point in touch screen, and fingerprints on me monitor, arghhhh. lol
 
looks like linux from a few years ago to me.

EDIT: ATM I cant see the advantage to touch screen. I'll still need a keyboard and mouse and aint buying a new monitor for many years.
 
bobbyboy uk said:
hmmm, its all a bit minority report, cant see the point in touch screen, and fingerprints on me monitor, arghhhh. lol
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Maybe not for desktop pc's, but for kitchen computers (believe it or not) this would ideal. I remember seing a demo for Microsofts touch screen technology where it was built into a workspace in the kitchen. Of course it could be on a monitor as well but the functionality was there.
 
'Drives' to get people to use new technologies never seem to go very well, unless it does something spectacular. I really can't see that many people taking advantage of the touch screen aspects of Windows 7, unless they have a tablet PC or they are using it in some sort of home automation.

Hopefully this won't lead to Windows 7 being another dead fish, with loads of features people don't want to use. If it comes down to keeping XP or paying for a new OS where you don't do anything differentally, then way pay out money ?
 
The video is a demo of Microsoft Surface, which is real.

The screenshots are almost certainly fake. They're a muddle of OSX/early Longhorn alphas/early version of Aero/Start++ etc.

I mean, they're from here:

http://wepokers.blogspot.com/2008/05/microsoft-confirms-windows-7-for-2010.html

Every UI different, pretty much!


One MS employee over at Neowin said:

"Apparently we're building 17 different UIs for Win7, haha. I love the fact that Start++ is shown in one of them

Some of them aren't bad looking, but they're all pretty geeky. And most don't look very functional. "
 
csmager said:
The video is a demo of Microsoft Surface, which is real.
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And has nothing to do with Windows 7.

csmager said:
One MS employee over at Neowin said:

"Apparently we're building 17 different UIs for Win7, haha. I love the fact that Start++ is shown in one of them

Some of them aren't bad looking, but they're all pretty geeky. And most don't look very functional. "
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But it does show where MS want to take the new GUI and thankfully, that's away from the start button and task bar.

Burnsy
 
Burnsy2023 said:
But it does show where MS want to take the new GUI and thankfully, that's away from the start button and task bar.
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While that's probably true, I doubt those images show any representation of what's to come. They're almost certainly not actually from MS.
 
masterluke said:
When will MS learn that we want stability and speed as the highest priority. Everything else is a "nice to have".
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Vista is very stable. And mine's certainly fast. Stability, other than those issues caused by third party drivers, hasn't really been a problem since they move to NT.

Windows 7 will essentially be Vista with the stuff on top changed and developed a bit. Vista was a technologies release - they've done all the hard work with things like DWM, network stack rewrite, audio stack rewrite. 7 will just make use of all of it.
 
csmager said:
Vista is very stable. And mine's certainly fast. Stability, other than those issues caused by third party drivers, hasn't really been a problem since they move to NT.
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Stable - generally yes now that the driver support is better
Fast - No - Its definitely not - the requirements to make it run at a decent speed are a bit of a joke IMO.

If MS keep this up then they are going to lose further ground to open-source alternatives. The only reason Vista sells so well is that job bloggs doesnt have a great deal of choice when he buys his pc off the shelf.

EDIT - oh and i LOVE the firefox icon on the second picture - like MS would EVER release a picture with that in haha
 
masterluke said:
Stable - generally yes now that the driver support is better
Fast - No - Its definitely not - the requirements to make it run at a decent speed are a bit of a joke IMO.
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But Vista will run faster than XP on very high spec. As PCs are always becoming higher spec, this is most likely the correct way forward.

That said, there are people who only use their PC for web access and email, in which case nearly nothing is required.... I suppose 'home basic' would do for that, but they might as well use something far more lightweight on a PC with barely any grunt at all.
 
masterluke said:
Stable - generally yes now that the driver support is better
Fast - No - Its definitely not - the requirements to make it run at a decent speed are a bit of a joke IMO.

If MS keep this up then they are going to lose further ground to open-source alternatives. The only reason Vista sells so well is that job bloggs doesnt have a great deal of choice when he buys his pc off the shelf.

EDIT - oh and i LOVE the firefox icon on the second picture - like MS would EVER release a picture with that in haha
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u will not win with someone with a windows signature lol
 
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