Longhorn Curves

hmmmmmmmmmmm...

Looks like it could be a fake to me?

Looks like the convex curve of the monitor is distorting the image to me

The article that contains the screenshot says:

"It is the taskbar area that concerns me most: This is the part that resembles the Longhorn prototype UI I'd already seen, with a hump-like curve over the tray notification area."

So, I don't think that it is a monitor problem.

Go to the wincustom main page and there is a link to that article your refering to..and it has the same screenshots..

Yes, i was using that link, when i found that picture.

I looked at it, and its not the monitor. If that look though is any indication of some of the changes to the GUI then I am curious what the point of that is. It does get away from having a straight line, and therefore being more stylish, but does it serve a purpose?

I believe that the new tray will be more customize friendly, more menu´s and controls.
But the curve is just an curve and i think there are no purposes with it... but who nows

I have a question:

What is going to happen to WC when the new OS from Microsoft comes out? Everyone here gonna jump ship from XP to Longhorn?

That all depends Kona, chances are Microsoft will change what 'Longhorn' is supposed to be a lot by the time it's released. It's still a good 2+ years away, who knows what the market will be like then, what the PC world will be like. But as far as everyone jumping ship, that would all depend on Longhorn and it's features. XP is a rock-solid OS with an abundancy of features, it's gonna be hard to top this. They can merely improve and streamline what is already on XP. I doubt it's gonna be such a drastic change like from Win98 to WinXP. WinFS does look promising though, I still worry about Paladium and DRM.

WinFS does look promising though, I still worry about Paladium and DRM.

what are all these?

Kona: This http://www.winsupersite.com/faq/longhorn.asp explains alot of stuff about longhorn.

WinFS is the new file system for Longhorn. Just like Win98 had FAT32, NT/2k/XP has NTFS...Longhorn will have WinFS. In a nutshell (as far as I understand) it turns your hard drive into a SQL database. Each file will be a record on that database, which will make accessing files and searching files MUCH faster. That's all under the hood though, it will still look visually the same, icons and windows..etc. Paladium and DRM is much to involved to be discussed here, there are so many rumors about it.

Info on Paladium - http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2002/jul02/0724palladiumwp.asp
Info on DRM for Windows - http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/WM7/DRM/what.aspx

Hus: WinFS is not a files-system in itself. It works on top/in cooperation with NTFS to create a non-physical and SQL based storage system.

to me looking at the lower right screen pretty much shows that the monitor settings are all wacked out, Pin Cussion is blown on the right

If u look at the text on wallpaper, the text has no failure, and the tray is soooo close to the text, so why is the tray curved and not the text? hmmm IPlural ?

http://www.winsupersite.com/images/showcase/lh-proto_sm.png

This is scren shot of a proto type Longhorn UI and it does curve for sure. But again the shot leaves a lot to be desired and it is hard to really see what is real and what is visual disfunction...

The Road to Windows Longhorn 2003

UPDATE. On August 19, 2003, I obtained the first legitimate depictions of Microsoft's planned Longhorn "Aero" user interface! Jump ahead to see what it looks like...
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/longhorn_preview_2003.asp#aero

At the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) 2003 trade show in New Orleans in May 2003, Microsoft finally revealed its roadmap for Longhorn, the next major Windows desktop version, and the successor to Windows XP. Longhorn, as readers of this site know, will be the most dramatic and exciting release of Windows ever, and the most important update to the product since Windows 95.


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dang I forgot how to use the freaking linker

Yes its so difficult to know whats real and not real, so we have to wait some time and watch the supersite for updates etc...
Have a nice evening(europe)

This is all interesting. You are all writing such intruiging posts. In fact, I believe the topic for Longhorn is far more interesting than all those other topics...'specially that stupid "oh is marriage a good idea~?~". I am also looking forward to this new File System. I believe that the filing system is the core of quality and performance of the system.
As for the odd looking curving taskbar, I believe it is a good idea, and does serve a purpose. Recently, I discovered a setting on my own taskbar, i don't know if it works for all resolution settings, but for mine, it's good. Everyone righ-click your taskbar, and "clear£ the 'lock the taskbar' option. this will allow you to resize the taskbar. rezise it so that it's basically double the size it was before. As you can now see, where the clock is displayed, the day, and date is also displayed. Now, as you can confirm, there is now space for this extra display. however, because you've extended the size of the taskbar, it does kinda look ugly and bulgy. But that can't be helped if you really want the date to be displayed. I've kept it like that because i think it's worth it. And i've got used to it now so.. But basically, maybe MS made the tray bigger so that the date can be displayed, and the taskbar can remain it's normal proportion. That might not be right, but it does sound valid, don't you agree?

Yes, you writing/idea is so right...
Looking forward for more pics and stuff soon on longhorn...