Leaked Video Shows Windows 8 Metro UI Login
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It's the creepy wallpaper again!
Earlier this week we heard about a leaked version of Windows 8. Now we have another peek at a newer version.
The leak is 7850, and now a video of 7955 has hit the internet. There aren't any big drastic changes to be seen yet, but it does offer another look at the new login screen (which was not an April Fool's Day joke) as well as animated profile pictures.
Leaked video shows Windows 8 Metro UI logon
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That's like putting a different blanket over a bed and saying you have a new bed!
I sure do hope they add some fantastic features to it, no matter what I'll always be curious about any kind of new OS or hardware hitting the market.
So really Win8 is really more like a win7.1 update like mac OSX.
to say they're throwing a new blanket on the bed and calling it a new bed would be like saying they gave windows 98 a windows 7 theme, but has all the capabilities of 98 still. In this case, its like putting the same sheets from the old bed onto a brand new, improved bed - thus the OS is entirely different in the background, but the GUI remains the same. In conclusion, there will be big differences in the OS's i believe..One being for individual, offline based client use, the other requiring all the cloud nonsense and constant online activity. Either way, I don't like the idea of the cloud and staying connected..so I will always prefer windows 7 over this concept.
They're basically adding ARM support and that's pretty much it. Not that ARM isn't a big deal, but for the average joe it's not something that will be a game changer. Still no winfs or any other long lost and promised feature.
/sarcasm
how cheap is an arm processor?
many people only use the pc to look at email, video and web. a dual core arm can handle hd video right? hell arms are up to quad cores now ant at 2.5ghz, id love to see, clock for clock, how these compare to intel and amd, as these could bring a new era of computers, and possibly drive down netbook and net top costs EVEN MORE.
Needs work... its really ONLY useful as a screen saver > to relog-in. Otherwise, not needed when you turn on the damn computer.
The fact all the leaks look the same as Windows 7 doesn't necessarily mean anything since the UI is the last thing to change during development, Windows 7 leaks were identical to Vista for years. That said, I don't really see why they would make dramatic changes to the UI after only recently switching to the Windows 7 way of doing things, I mean the previous UI behavior essentially remained unchanged from Windows 95 through to Windows Vista.
I prefer that they'd support some newer filesystems before throwing extra layers like WinFS on the aging NTFS filesystem.
I'd say that it still hasn't changed much. So you have a slightly modified taskbar interface... big deal. The majority of the Windows 7 UI behaves the same as any OS with a compositing window manager.
I won't pass judgement until I have a play with the BETA version but even at this early stage what I will say it's about bloody time Microsoft added ARM support for Windows and broke up the whole Microsoft/Intel or Intsoft or Microtel cartel that dominated the industry for the past 20 years.
Haha very funnies mister! but if you rewatch the video dr.jones you'll realize that you can switch between the login screens. Either using the CTRL ALT DELETE method, or by just clicking on your user icon and typing in the password.
first thing the 7850 leak was a Real windows 8 build it has been confirmed in many places around the Web it is an Early M1 build of windows 8 it has some features in place already that cant simply be slip streamed to a damn ISO of windows 7.
Now as for Windows 8 looks in general ok this is an early on stages of the Development of windows 8 so it wont have many changes to the UI later on and even then i am sure some of Windows 8 will keep in the windows 7 look AKA the Taskbar witch will have some changes of sorts.
link to screenshots of Windows 7 build 6519 at this point looks entirely similar to vista with minor UI changes very Minor http://www.zakeh.com/blog/2008/04/04/
Now as for the new build video 7955 it is entirly real and has many many new features already implimented in it. links to neowin.net
http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-8-hybrid-boot-discovered
http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-8-cloud-features-uncovered
http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-8-to-support-portable-workspace-push-notifications-and-other-apps-discovered
http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-8-genuine-center-image-surfaces
http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-testing-ribbon-ui-in-windows-8
http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-8-to-allow-software-acceleration-makes-aero-ubiquitous
A company as powerful as Microsoft has a direction they want to go, they just have to figure out how to get as many consumers on board to make it work...