MS "Longhorn" footage

eugeneeugene
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
<a href="http://msbetas.net/longhorn/"; target="_blank">http://msbetas.net/longhorn/</a>;



Download the video...what's the first thing that pops into your mind?



Now the real question is what's with the replicating windows that shrink? 3 Window Monte?



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  • Reply 1 of 10
    buonrottobuonrotto Posts: 6,368member
    ....Finally! That is one long intro screen in that vid.



    That thar TaskShelf (Shelf? Hm... I guess they can afford to acknowledge the influence of NeXTstep on their OS at this point) makes the Dock look downright petite, don'it?



    Anyway, I just watched the thing without reading any documents on the site. What exactly are they doing when they appear to multiply the windows (and shrink them)? Is that the Windows 3.1 tiled window scheme ported to Longhorn? No more pesky overlapping windows (again)?
  • Reply 2 of 10
    zozo Posts: 3,117member
    ok.. so its an alpha copy... but wtf was that all about? Ugly fer sure. And the 'genie' effect was quite apparent. But whatever. I've stopped caring about MS copying a while ago. Nothing will ever come out of it anyway. The worse they do it, the better the probablities are that Windows users will defect
  • Reply 3 of 10
    groveratgroverat Posts: 10,872member
    1) Looks quite stupid. Like an overgrown taskbar on the left side of the screen.



    2) That is a scaling effect, not a "genie" effect at all.



    Hopefully it looks little less like ass later.
  • Reply 4 of 10
    kaboomkaboom Posts: 286member
    :eek: I actually like it! :eek:



    I feel all dirty now.
  • Reply 5 of 10
    bradbowerbradbower Posts: 1,068member
    That just generally seems pretty confusing.



    It takes up a huge amount of screen real estate as well. And like g'rat said, it looks like ass. But I'm sure that will improve at least marginally by the time it comes to market.



    It's more Dock-like than it ever has been, though.



    I should give props to Microsoft for actually trying something (relatively) new in the human-desktop-interface paradigm, at least to the mainstream population, instead of just prettifying things.



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  • Reply 6 of 10
    eugeneeugene Posts: 8,254member
    So...no insight with respect to the windows that go through mitosis...and shrink? I want to know what that's all about! <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
  • Reply 7 of 10
    buonrottobuonrotto Posts: 6,368member
    My point exactly! I wish I could read the menu items and context menus. Looks like they're either opening copies of the same window, which would seem quite pointless, or else they're opening sub-folders that way. Why they do the shrinkydink thing is beyond me. Perhaps it's for copying/pasting -- something along the lines of spring-loaded folders?!
  • Reply 8 of 10
    groveratgroverat Posts: 10,872member
    Or maybe they're pulling an Apple "look what this can do even though it's useless ain't it cool?" thing.
  • Reply 9 of 10
    patchoulipatchouli Posts: 402member
    From <a href="http://www.winsupersite.com"; target="_blank">http://www.winsupersite.com</a>:



    [quote]The second Windows controversy revolves around a video that purports to show the interface for the Longhorn "shelf," which will replace the Start menu. Microsoft first publicly demonstrated the shelf last summer at the company's annual Financial Analysts Meeting, where executive Steven Guggenheimer explained how future MSN services would be able to integrate more easily with the new Windows UI. "So from the Windows perspective, I know this will be an open bar where anybody can plug in," Guggenheimer said at the time.



    The video shows a Windows-like desktop in Classic mode, with a wide gray bar running up the side. The bar is divided into sections, such as "task shelf," "common tasks," and "my email," and it's definitely fake. However, the video's creators did a decent job using the few available bits of information to show the type of functionality that Microsoft might include in the next Windows version's UI. But if you're excited about seeing Longhorn in action, you need to wait: Microsoft told me that the Longhorn beta won't start until this fall, after the XP SP1 beta is completed. Look for more information about this purported Longhorn video on the SuperSite for Windows later this week.<hr></blockquote>
  • Reply 10 of 10
    /mandolux//mandolux/ Posts: 648member
    I see the contextual-menu - FinderPop comes to mind - when can we see something close to FinderPop for X?
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