Windows Vista Beta 1: screenshot gallery

TroganTrogan London, UK
edited September 2005 in Nerdery
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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