New Windows 7 boot screen

ThraxThrax ๐ŸŒAustin, TX Icrontian
edited December 2008 in Science & Tech
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  • KwitkoKwitko Sheriff of Banning (Retired) By the thing near the stuff Icrontian
    edited December 2008
    I'd much prefer the Google logo strangling the MS logo, but that's just me.
  • mas0nmas0n howdy Icrontian
    edited December 2008
    I reboot once per month, so whatever. It's shiny.
  • BuddyJBuddyJ Dept. of Propaganda OKC Icrontian
    edited December 2008
    Video is gone?
  • RADARADA Apple Valley, CA Member
    edited December 2008
    Yup, no video here.... :(
    Buddy J wrote:
    Video is gone?
  • ThraxThrax ๐ŸŒ Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited December 2008
    Wow, they pulled it down.
  • ThraxThrax ๐ŸŒ Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited December 2008
    Updated with a YouTube source!
  • _k_k P-Town, Texas Icrontian
    edited December 2008
    No, needs more swords and ninjas.......is windows trying to "ice" out.
  • ZuntarZuntar North Carolina Icrontian
    edited December 2008
    Kwitko wrote:
    I'd much prefer the Google logo strangling the MS logo, but that's just me.
    mas0n wrote:
    I reboot once per month, so whatever. It's shiny.
  • I'd prefer no animation and a fast boot time.
  • DrLiamDrLiam British Columbia
    edited December 2008
    Final Fantasy orbs!? Ugh, Real original.
  • TimTim Southwest PA Icrontian
    edited December 2008
    No need for any fancy animation BS, just make it start quickly and work right.
  • ThraxThrax ๐ŸŒ Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited December 2008
    Let's be fair about this: this is a computational task that, by all appearances, looks as though it's handled by the GPU. Getting rid of the logo wouldn't make Windows 7 load any faster, because that part of the boot sequence is all about disk I/O.
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited December 2008
    I wasn't sure before, but now I'm _totally_ getting Windows 7.
  • SonorousSonorous F@H Fanatic US Icrontian
    edited December 2008
    I think it looks clean, and polished. A definite step up from previous versions of windows. I just hope they are not trying to pull the wool over our eyes again like they did with Vista.
  • NiGHTSNiGHTS San Diego Icrontian
    edited December 2008
    Color me surprised, a new take on a logo from MS has the internet bent out of shape.
  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited December 2008
    Oh for crap's sake. What wool was pulled over your eyes, Sono?
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited December 2008
    It was definitely alpaca-based.
  • SonorousSonorous F@H Fanatic US Icrontian
    edited December 2008
    Well they show you this flashy OS that LOOKS better, but ends up being the same, if not worse. I know a lot of inexperienced computer users that got Vista just because it looked good. Now maybe it's their own fault, but you can't tell me that MS didn't think of that as well.
  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited December 2008
    I'm curious what you'd consider worse in Vista than in XP, aside from some differences in some transfer rates?
  • ThraxThrax ๐ŸŒ Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited December 2008
    I mean, we could start with benchmarks...
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited December 2008
    Besides hard numbers, I could say anecdotally that playing TF2 on vista was a nightmare of inexplicable pauses while the drive constantly accessed for 30-60 second spans and the game froze, rendering it unplayable while Vista did "whatever", and the problem completely went away when I went back to XP....

    Or we could just stick to benchmarks
  • NiGHTSNiGHTS San Diego Icrontian
    edited December 2008
    I never had any problems running TF2 on Vista, FWIW.
  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited December 2008
    Nor I.

    We can argue the "slower on the same hardware" argument every day for eternity, but that's the way it's been with damn near all operating system improvements since they started. I find more than enough redeeming qualities in Vista (improved security, improved graphics subsystem, improved resource management in many areas, etc) to completely boggle me with the sheer number of "upgrade to XP" slogans I've seen over the last few years.

    But hell, I've been blowing this horn for a while, and nobody's listened to me yet. I just sincerely do not believe that anything in Vista so much worse than XP that they're deserving of being called deceivers. That's hyperbole of the highest quality.

    *Snark realizes this makes him look like a fanboy, but will kill anybody who says so...
  • ThraxThrax ๐ŸŒ Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited December 2008
    If nobody has listened to you yet, doesn't that give you pause?
  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited December 2008
    Yes, because being believed is certainly the infallible measure of certitude.
  • jaredjared College Station, TX Icrontian
    edited December 2008
    If Satan and Amy Winehouse had a baby, I'd bet it would be like Vista.
  • SonorousSonorous F@H Fanatic US Icrontian
    edited December 2008
    I run windows Vista, and I have no plans to go back to XP. All I was saying, is that Vista looked better than it ran when it was released. One could argue that XP did the same thing over windows 2000. I think that the new boot screen is nice looking, and appealing, but I'm not going to start making calls on the OS until I see more than a little tinsel and glowing orbs.
  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited December 2008
    Sounds perfect to me.
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited December 2008
    ...a little tinsel and glowing orbs
    Ah, so you've met my former girlfriend!
  • -tk-tk Detroit, MI USA Icrontian
    edited December 2008
    On a scale of 0 to 1, I give this a 0.
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