Windows 7 beta: Screenshots

We give you a sneak peek at the upcoming beta of Windows 7 before Microsoft unveils the software to the public later this month.

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    Hmm Anonymous -- 07/01/09

    Looks like kde4.

    bored Anonymous -- 08/01/09 (in reply to #320120460)

    I am not sure how long Micro$ucks is going to piggyback on Vista users for it's Beta testing... Windows 7 is just another Vista!

    duh Anonymous -- 12/01/09 (in reply to #320120518)

    awesome, that means it going to be great. just like vista. ignorant tard

    KDE4 Renai LeMay -- 08/01/09 (in reply to #320120460)

    I remember when KDE was first released -- people were saying: "That looks like Windows" :P

    Renai

    News Editor
    ZDNet.com.au

    Windows Anonymous -- 09/01/09 (in reply to #320120544)

    ...and when windows was released people were saying it looks like Mac or OS/2, or GEM desktop! When office was released people said it looked like lotus and wordstar 2000!

    You wont get far with this argument when it comes to Microsoft!

    yey Anonymous -- 08/01/09

    i can't wait....i decided to skip Vista altogether and i feel the need for a new OS

    Lack of innovation Steve -- 08/01/09 (in reply to #320120527)

    One strength that MS has is to copy somebody else's work. This Win 7 definitely looks like KDE4. So, I don't really expect much exciting new things coming out from this win 7 cos MS either copies from Mac or Linux these days.

    RE: Lack of innovation Bobby L. -- 09/01/09 (in reply to #320120549)

    Just because it slightly resembles one of the hundreds of flavors of Linux, does not mean they are copying Linux. What you said makes no sense, like there's a company called Linux that MS is stealing GUI designed from or something...

    Unless it's free I'm going to wait... Randanna -- 09/01/09

    Don't see anything I can't live without. Was an early adopter of Vista and Office7 and kept the faith that MS would fix it until a couple of months ago when I bought a netbook. Until then I forgot just how mature and easy XP is. I still feel burned by MS and likely will switch to Mac or Linux for new machines.

    Windows 7 Eric -- 09/01/09

    Personally i still dont see any reason to upgrade from XP. XP does pretty much what everyone wants and its simple. Windows Vista and Windows 7 just seem to make things bigger so it stands out more hence people say oh look its easier to find. Windows 7 isnt a step forward, its just windows vista with some minor graphical changes, but think about it... would you rather have a quality stable operating system or something that looks cool with gigantor icons and so much security that you lock yourself out.

    Its amazing just how much people don't know! Anonymous -- 09/01/09 (in reply to #320120624)

    Eric - I honestly can't believe what you have posted. Its shocking, truly shocking how people can moan about something that they obviously DO NOT know about.

    Do you really know the HUGE differences between XP and Vista?

    Go on, tell everyone the extremely little amount of knowledge you have about this topic.

    Nothing Too Great Anonymous -- 10/01/09

    Sure, it has some nice shiny pictures (although the top of the windows looks really 'plastic-ey' and there is so much wasted space there!) but my XP machine does everything I need and want . So until I find something in Windows 7 I MUST have, I'm sticking with XP.

    XP users Anonymous -- 16/01/09

    all of you XP users who still trash Vista have no idea! All you have heard is horror stories from other people who have no idea or are computer-stupid! I have been running Vista 64 on my main gaming machine and other than being somewhat of a system hog, my Vista PC runs all games flawlessly without issue as well as XP ever did! So if you have no idea about how Vista runs go back to your cave with all the other XP whiners!

    XP Users Anonymous -- 17/01/09 (in reply to #320121080)

    Agreed and the Linux and Mac fanboys can join you.

    I'd like to complain..... Anonymous -- 19/01/09 (in reply to #320121186)

    Well, after purchasing a brand new Toshiba Intel2 duo with 2Gb of RAM, I was livid that I did not get an OS choice. Vista home Premium.
    Already I was off, re-partitioining the hard drive to dual boot XP. Tell me I can't run whatever damned thing I want on my OWN machine!! I also didn't want to void the warranty, so the OEM copy must stay for at least a year.
    Anyhoo's, I've forced myself to use only this laptop, thus ONLY using Vista - what can I say? It's actually not bad. It's been stable, fast, and very reliable.
    BTW, by day I'm a RedHat/Solaris administrator and I liove on the command line, so I really wanted to trash the OS, but I can't, it's done everything I've needed it to do....

    Bullshit Vista Stories Alex -- 01/02/09

    I have windows Vista on every computer in my house and have never had any problems. I cant see what is wrong with vista i have never seen any problems that xp users talk about i think they should shut up and try vista before talking.

    stabilty Sahil -- 11/07/09

    totally agreeing with fact that Vista has no flaws as far as i have used
    Vista premium 64 bit is a great OS and runs everything pretty smooth , as it judiciously uses the memory.
    XP on the other hand is stable but old. It is mature but lacks certain somethings i would wish my PC would have.

    eagerly waiting to get Windows 7 on my PC , though i have a query if it is available in 64 bit or 32 bit.???

    looks good Anonymous -- 22/07/09

    It looks a little better than vista but I want to see if it works better.

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