Windows Vista Beta 1: screenshot gallery

TroganTrogan London, UK
edited September 2005 in Science & Tech
Not sure if you guys have seen these but here are the screenshots.


IE7 doesn't look that nice in the pic...

Comments

  • NecropolisNecropolis Hawarden, Wales Icrontian
    edited September 2005
    Moved out of Pub and into Windows :thumbsup:
  • TroganTrogan London, UK
    edited September 2005
    Thanks
  • sfleurietsfleuriet Texas New
    edited September 2005
    yeah I like it.. I usually like to have things to look different and have revamps and upgrades. I think Vista isn't as much of a change as I would want though. It's all pretty similar.

    That screenshot of the Control Panel really annoys me - its identical!! :shakehead

    Some of it looks better, but a lot of it really doesn't appeal to me.
  • GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
    edited September 2005
    That identical Control Panel is intentional - for folks like me who can't do without the Classic view!
  • lemonlimelemonlime Canada Member
    edited September 2005
    I've been playing around with BETA1 for about a week now. To be honest, I havent seen much of a difference from XP, with the exception of IE7. Some visual differences but behind the shell, everything seems similar.

    One thing I particularly like: There is no more 'Documents and Settings' folder. It is now called 'Users'. Some of those long folder names used to drive me nuts :D

    The installation procedure is very different from XP/2K though. It is totally graphical, and displays very little, with the exception of an progress bar below.
  • sfleurietsfleuriet Texas New
    edited September 2005
    Interesting, lemonlime. Thanks :)
  • ArmoArmo Mr. Nice Guy Is Dead,Only Aqua Remains Member
    edited September 2005
    ill stick with XP
  • airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
    edited September 2005
    any chance i could happen to "stumble" onto a copy of that beta 1 in the mail lemon?
  • sfleurietsfleuriet Texas New
    edited September 2005
    yeah how did you get that?

    And I'll probably stick with XP also. Of course I want to see and use Vista to know for myself what its like, but I can't see myself spending more than $10 to upgrade to it.
  • lemonlimelemonlime Canada Member
    edited September 2005
    One of the developers I work with is a beta tester, and I got a chance to play around with it on a system at work.

    I'm not sure what is required, or how to sign up to be a beta tester. I think it's pretty restricted as to who can obtain it..
  • GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
    edited September 2005
    All you need to do is plunk down $2000 for an MSDN Universal license, we get all the Betas... ;)
  • sfleurietsfleuriet Texas New
    edited September 2005
    $2,799 - is that lifetime?
  • GrayFoxGrayFox /dev/urandom Member
    edited September 2005
    pilotwings119 wrote:
    $2,799 - is that lifetime?
    Yearly fee.
  • sfleurietsfleuriet Texas New
    edited September 2005
    GrayFox wrote:
    Yearly fee.
    :eek::p thats crazy
  • airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
    edited September 2005
    restricted...maybe in legality..but I have a few friends that have it, and they are teasing me with it. They wont let me near there disc...Ive just seen it boot on their systems. I want it so bad.
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