DISQUS

Windows 7 Center: First Look: Windows 7 User Interface

  • John Durham · 1 year ago
    The orb!
  • Andy · 1 year ago
    If Microsoft had stopped at deciding to include jumbo icons in the taskbar, they would have been labelled as Mac copycats. But this new concept of hovering, peeking, and grouping thumbnails is a really good idea. I'm not sure if I'll be using it because I still disable grouping on every computer I use - I just don't see how it makes you more productive. I sure hope they will allow you to revert back to the classic taskbar as well. Peeking, gadgets, and windows explorer, and especially UAC all have great improvements. But as you said, most of the improvements are what should have been in Vista anyway. So nothing here blows me away. Microsoft better have a lot more up their sleeves, or we're looking at another crap release here
  • Brian Luong · 1 year ago
    Well Vista just really sucked when it came out. After SP1, it was a lot more stable and improved. I'm with you on the features though, Vista wasn't much different from XP besides higher system requirements.
  • Erwin Karsli · 1 year ago
    taskbar = nice change
    That's it?
    They slapped preview on windows explorer and called it improved. Take away sidebar, improved!
    I was hoping for more =(
  • Robert Grant · 1 year ago
    What exactly was different about Vista than XP? UAC, parental control, and a bunch of crap no body uses like meeting spaces...
  • Jeff Mendez · 1 year ago
    Am I the only one that noticed Palin is in one of the screenshots? Microsoft supporting the republicans???
  • Mike · 1 year ago
    my guess is they got more in the works, but don't want to reveal anything yet. remember near-instant boot time for vista?
  • craz · 1 year ago
    Sometime this December. You can get it through Windows Connect but it's probably not listed yet. Subscribe to the RSS so you don't forget =)
  • gordon · 1 year ago
    looks really nice. i like the windows peeking
    when does the public beta come out and how do i get it?
  • Commodity Trading Accounts · 1 year ago
    whether it is better than Vista...no problems
  • atlkfh · 1 year ago
    I was told in the terms and conditions not to leak any info about windows 7 including images of ui only for testing purposes
  • craz · 1 year ago
    Hi there. I did not personally leak any of the images. As for the ones from Neowin and Gizmodo, I have sourced them and not sure where they got them.