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Windows 7 Build 6519 Screenshot Gallery | |
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| Time: 23:50 EST/04:50 GMT | News Source: Windows SuperSite | Posted By: Jonathan Tigner | ||
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A few weeks back, the first external build of Windows 7, the next version of Windows, fell into my hands. I installed it initially in just a virtual machine and took hundreds of shots, and that's what you're looking at here. Essentially, Windows 7 build 6519--dating back to December 2007--is just a slightly enhanced version of Windows Vista. My guess--and at this point, it's just a guess--is that things will change more significantly over time. But even in this early build, a number of interesting developments emerge. I'll have more to say about that in the days ahead. For now, enjoy this first screenshot gallery. It won't be the last. | ||
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| #1 By 7390 (24.191.94.122) at 4/4/2008 7:15:23 AM |
| Given Microsoft's history this thing will be in stores Jan 2011 at the earliest and won't include anything that makes you say "now that is impressive". |
| #2 By 8556 (12.208.163.138) at 4/4/2008 8:23:50 AM |
| Time will tell whether MS can/will streamline the code base enough to run efficiently on new tiny notebook computers with Atom processors and 1-GB of RAM. If so, than Windows XP Home OEM will finally be retired. |
| #3 By 2138 (84.2.122.83) at 4/4/2008 8:59:15 AM |
| to me it looks just like vsta. |
| #4 By 2201 (82.45.132.196) at 4/4/2008 10:59:51 AM |
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#3 Obviously it'll look like Vista. This is very early days and the Vista elements will be slowly chopped and changed into something completely different. It'll be a couple of years before you see any significant UI change.
Just take a look at the progress of previous OS. In the case of XP, for example, it looked like Windows 2000 for a year or two after the initial release of 2000. |
| #5 By 7390 (24.191.94.122) at 4/4/2008 3:45:34 PM |
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#4, other than the useless sidebar Vista looks like Win95 with a slick theme/icons
wasn't Vista suppose to be some new UI "paradigm"? |
| #6 By 1896 (68.153.171.248) at 4/4/2008 5:26:36 PM |
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#5 I agree that the Sidebar as it is... mediocre but the initial concept, called "Sideshow" and developed in 2001, was way more useful, as it also was the Sidebar in the LH 4xxx builds.
Yes it had bugs but that is the reason it was a labeled "beta build". The new UI paradigm was real but unfortunately was dropped, among many other things, during the development process. This post was edited by Fritzly on Friday, April 04, 2008 at 17:27. |
| #7 By 23275 (68.186.182.236) at 4/5/2008 2:35:51 AM |
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#5, You are kidding, right?
So the entire concept of search in Vista has been missed? (how it works with and shapes the UX) OS X just added tagging in the last few weeks - and the world gushed...as even their strongest supporters try and ignore the Nov 2003 PDC when much of what would come in Vista RTM was presented and then bolted far less effectively to Tiger and Leopard... Vista has had tagging from day one. Similarly, Vista has had virtual folders and stacks from day one. Vista dumps the entire idea of hierarchical structures on their butts in favor of a far more efficient and practical solution centered on virtual representations of stored information. WinFS was supposed to be about being able to tag any file, or object for later retrieval via stored, or expressed queries that were easy to author and store. The best parts of that remained and were executed differently but with the same desired results. The simple truth being that what WinFS was to have done, was accomplished more easily and with less demand on the OS. It was after all, the finding and grouping of desired information, regardless of where it was actually located that was the goal. Vista does all of that. In Vista the work needed to sustain a complex hierarchical stack is eliminated. Tag any file, or object in any way you want and fog out a simple search and save it - even modify saved searches. Execute or re-execute any of them and find all the documents, images, etc... relevant to what you are working on. Tag any object in multiple ways and the same object becomes a part of many projects at once. An image for example, used in not one presentation, but dozens. In Vista finding that image is a snap. That's swell, but giving that image context(s) where it is used again and again, but perhaps differently, is where things in Vista become interesting. Vista's UI was specifically tuned to enable users to work like this and further, the API's built for it extend the capability to any dev who wants to use them. It is so effective that it obviated the need for the traditional file menu - rendering its use nearly idiotic. With just this one feature added to the visual clarity within scalable folder and object views alongside the preview pane and using a computer changes for the better in an instant. User can add shares on their home, or business networks and apply the same tools to these resources. Give it a try... this stuff is seriously good and too few Vista users have adopted this way of working. w/o it, yeah, Vista makes less sense, but when one adds these capabilities to the security found in the new OS, Vista starts to make a lot of sense. |
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