Photos: First views of Windows Vista

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By silicon.com, 2 August 2005 14:40

The Pictures and Video folder in Windows Vista contains new information about a picture, including the type of camera used and a user-assigned rating.

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  1. 1. Frank Smith

    mmm been looking at a few Linux boxes then,
    mustr eally hurt when you need to look at OPen source to see your way forward.

  2. 2. anonymous

    More unnecessary complexities! I'd rather a Windows that does what it is supposed to to with minimum fuss than a Windows with a whole load of new features which I don't want or need.

  3. 3. Richard A.

    D? vu

    Looks like Redmond did indeed start their photocopiers as Steve suggested. Not very good ones, mind you...

  4. 4. anonymous

    Oh my...and this is still over more than a year away (though based on microsofts past history I think thats a bit optomistic). Leopard will probably be out before Vista.

  5. 5. anonymous

    The start menu may be redesigned but it looks like it still suffers from the core design fault that to access anything you must mouse over the All Programs menu, taking 30s or so during which the menu is unresponsive to pop up an intrusive application list that obscures the second half of the menu. Wouldn't it make more sense to put this at the top of the menu so that the more frequently used application icons are nearer to the mouse and selecting them doesn't fall foul of the All Programs menu trap?

  6. 6. anonymous

    Absolutly Wonderful.

    Where is the setting to switch to windows classic view, the first thing i do to any XP box!!!!!

  7. 7. anonymous

    Right- I'd bet a survey of users would find that most don't use 90% of Window's current features. Why not concentrate on what an OS should do, instead of adding bloat-ware features for the marketing department?

  8. 8. Nick Cole

    None of this requires a completely new system. If they just modified the appropriate modules of the existing software it would be so much easier. Or perhaps that is all they have done and this is merely a way of getting us to pay for something we didn't all demand and they have decided that we have to pay to keep their developers in jobs?

    Something as 'mature' as Windows shouldn't need any more than minor improvement and add-ons. Not every one wants or demands all these bells and whistles but we all have to learn the new ways they have decided we should do things, with no documentation, and also learn a whole set of new work arounds and wait for more bug fixes in order to carry on what we can all do at the moment!

    Every piece of new software MS have produced has been the best, easiest, most foolproof, secure and bug-free! But none of this is realised in practice.

    Wait until SP2 or 3 before getting it, give yourselves the benefit of realising your investment in W2K or XP first.

  9. 9. anonymous

    why should users wait for one or two years for this kind of stuff? alternatives(free and paid) are available right now in the market. the features not available in these alternative products may well be unnecessary for majority of the users.

    the number one feature i would like to see in a OS is SECURITY. does Vista has it? i don't see any screenshots showing security initiatives/features.

    looks like microsoft is just adding new colors, screensavers and jingles as usual without providing anything beneficial to an average user. i hope prospective buyers doesn't get distracted by the noise.

  10. 10. anonymous

    oh please you lot . You can't really tell much from the pictures. As for Plagiarism it's a bloody windowing environment, they've been around the best part of 30 years surely there's only so much you can do.

    Microsoft have to bring out new versions. They'd die otherwise. Imagine if Ford suddenly said
    "sack the designers, our cars are good enough as they are " . Think commodity, think fashion. Oh and hear this if you don't like just don't buy it.


    Whingers !!

  11. 11. Tom Samek

    The reason why Microsoft keeps on adding features is to forestall any competitive threat.

    1) DTsearch was no competitive threat for desktop searches, but Google is, hence improved searching.

    2) Camera vendors and portals are encrouching on the desktop, hence improved photo handling.

    etc.

    Microsoft doesn't expect you to USE it, they just want to destroy the market potential for other products. If it comes free with Windows, why buy it?

  12. 12. David King

    I can't stand the two column start menu in Windows XP, I set my XP to look like Windows 2000 in the start menu and window appearance. Windows Vista is a nice name but I think the start menu is too fancy. They got it right with Windows 2000, so why all the "window dressing" rubbish in later versions? Or is it just to make the OS look more attractive so that people will buy it? I am more interested in a reliable and and stable OS suitable for business and home use without any fancy clutter. Why do Microsoft not give us something more functional and 100% reliable and stable?

  13. 13. anonymous

    See more screenshots!!!!

    http://www.gobuy.ro/blog/?p=16

    Just click the links!

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