Windows 7 UI Revealed

What do you think?

Wednesday, October 29, 2008 by Island Dog | Discussion: WinCustomize News

As many of you might know, Microsoft unveiled more details about Windows 7 at this weeks PDC (Professional Developers Conference).  During a keynote made on Tuesday, Windows 7 was actually demonstrated, and one of the main focuses was on UI improvements and feature additions.  Microsoft has added several interesting features that I personally can’t wait to try out myself.

Here are some screenshots courtesy of Neowin.net who have been providing some great PDC coverage.

Start Menu/Jump List

Win7 desktop

Theme Gallery

 
 
 
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joeKnowledge
Reply #21 Wednesday, October 29, 2008 6:00 PM
I don't know about Windows 7. I am still waiting for the ""cloud" database storage instead of what we have now. I am sort of being forced to switch due to the fact that I want a new computer and the ones I want only come in VISTA but for the most part I don't see a reason to switch from XP. Maybe when there are more 64 bit apps I will feel the need to go to Vista and Windows 7.

MarkSnyder61
Reply #22 Wednesday, October 29, 2008 7:24 PM
I work in IT at a large retailer and we talked just today regarding upgrading but we're waiting for Win7 before we plunge from XP...  

ALMonty
Reply #23 Wednesday, October 29, 2008 8:27 PM
I agree with vStyler Very ugly. Looks like an updated XP.  

CyberDragonEX13
Reply #24 Wednesday, October 29, 2008 7:29 PM
I recently upgraded to Vista Ultimate from XP and I must say that Windows 7 so far is not worth the time or money to buy.Personally I love Vista Ult. The only snags i've ran into are due to the developers side not the OS and have only ran into one instance where the OS was at fault. Unless M$ pulls a rabbit out of thier @$$ and show off something that makes this OS different from Vista and makes it worth the extra cash count me out for I get pretty much everything I want from here (WC) and from Vista.

pjdark
Reply #25 Wednesday, October 29, 2008 8:38 PM
I really love the look. The taskbar looks awesome.

VistaCustomizer
Reply #26 Wednesday, October 29, 2008 8:47 PM
I do too pjdark! I don't get what people are complaining about here! I mean what the hell, people haven't even used the damn thing yet and think it sucks! How the hell can they know if something sucks if they don't use it? Also, they must not of watched the demos very close because the productivity increase is far more important than the look. I love the fact that it will be easier to get things done. Good grief complainers! Get a life! Programs are not all about look and feel all the time! Would you buy a $50,000 car if it had no engine or electrical components, but it was shiny? Damn! LOL!

Bebi Bulma
Reply #27 Wednesday, October 29, 2008 10:35 PM

The taskbar looks retarded, wtf is up with that? It's gigantic. And what, now windows are only identified by their icons? Or are those quicklaunch? WTF is it? FAIL


cavalierex
Reply #28 Wednesday, October 29, 2008 11:25 PM
I think the Windows 7 team is on the right track -- not only with regard to UI, but also with regard to UX and functionality. Now only if they'll stick to it, we'll have Windows the way Vista should've been. There's still a long way to go, so we'll see what happens by RTM.

neophil78
Reply #29 Wednesday, October 29, 2008 11:38 PM

Now will have to keep XP till Windows 2X020


Xiandi
Reply #30 Wednesday, October 29, 2008 11:54 PM

The taskbar looks retarded, wtf is up with that? It's gigantic. And what, now windows are only identified by their icons?
I'm with you on that one Bebi. Maybe it's set to double height?

The pics shown look just like Vista. I hope they do something a bit different before they call it finished.


VistArtXPosed
Reply #31 Wednesday, October 29, 2008 11:13 PM
Looks a lot like Vista to me. The only thing I like so far is the Theme selection window. Everything else looks more of the same, if not worse. I was expecting a revamped UI; Something that the world hasn't seen before. You're disappointing me, Microsoft.

Bebi Bulma
Reply #32 Thursday, October 30, 2008 1:02 AM

Xiandi
reply 5

The taskbar looks retarded, wtf is up with that? It's gigantic. And what, now windows are only identified by their icons? I'm with you on that one Bebi. Maybe it's set to double height?
The pics shown look just like Vista. I hope they do something a bit different before they call it finished.

I use doubletask, but that doesn't look like it. It just looks unnecessarily huge (really fkn wish FF spellcheck worked in this damn edit box).


PuterDudeJim
Reply #33 Thursday, October 30, 2008 1:21 AM

In my opinion...the taskbar sucks!!!  


PuterDudeJim
Reply #34 Thursday, October 30, 2008 1:24 AM

Just take Windows XP, have it come with Windowblinds as a system application, and call it Windows 8.  


HG_Eliminator
Reply #35 Thursday, October 30, 2008 1:40 AM

really fkn wish FF spellcheck worked in this damn edit box).

Bebi open it in HTML mode run the spell checker then save. also I been noticing if I go below the text to the bottom of the reply window, the FF menu works.

Its guaranteed Snowey...and the sheep will flock to them

 

moo.

 

HG_Eliminator will stick with WB. While MS has come along way since luna, I will not give up my custom desktops. (they can pry them from my cold dead fingers).

I too have had no problems with vista. The UAC was annoying but that got killed shortly by Tweakvista.


ipisking
Reply #36 Thursday, October 30, 2008 3:18 AM
Microsoft really isn't giving the Power User anything to get excited about. These UI photos could just as easily be part of a Vista service pack. This is just sad.. They should work on making Vista more maturer and stable like XP has become but now they want to roll out a new buggie OS. And ask us to pay for their lack of OS vision.

LightStar
Reply #37 Thursday, October 30, 2008 5:44 AM
Not impressed at all. Here we go again!   

danioc
Reply #38 Thursday, October 30, 2008 9:12 AM
The taskbar looks retarded, wtf is up with that? It's gigantic. And what, now windows are only identified by their icons? Or are those quicklaunch? WTF is it? FAIL
Babi, I just watched the Win 7 Keynote @ PDC08 and you can change the taskbar height, just right-clicking it, I believe the actual mode (taller with larger icons) is due the touch screen usage they wanted to show in the key not an probably want to get popular on future, would be hard to click a small icon (@ 16x16 pixels) with your fingers. About the text, the windows details appear on mouse over/click, I believe this organization method will be really good. As for the UI design, I doubt this is the final version thought I think it's not going to be very different, but hey, we have WindowBlinds

ZubaZ
Reply #39 Thursday, October 30, 2008 10:31 AM

If you look at Paint in teh first image of the start panel you can see that it has a sub menu. It's a list of most recently used files for that app.  I friggin' love that!

I too like more than an icon to identify applications on my taskbar.  I assume that it's an option though.

Since the kernal is still very much Vista I'd expect it to be very similar.  However, based on what I've seen of the user enhancements (based on userr complaints and comments) I agree that it's enough of a change to be a new version.

My biggest hope is that existing skin elements will port over to the UI changes so skinners don't have too much more work for new skins.  IT takes long enough as it is now.


neophil78
Reply #40 Thursday, October 30, 2008 3:47 PM

PuterDudeJim
reply 9
Just take Windows XP, have it come with Windowblinds as a system application, and call it Windows 8.  

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