If you’ve been waiting to see what Windows 7 will look like then you may want to head over to CrunchGear to check out a bevy of screen shots that hit our inbox earlier today. Of course, the release is a couple years out, but we’ve confirmed that this is what the current build of Windows 7 looks like. Coincidentally, Microsoft’s Steven Sinofsky was interviewed by CNET about Windows 7, but gave very little, if any, details on the subject. As the saying goes, though, a picture is worth a thousand words.
Update: Last night at D: All Things Digital Ballmer and Gates officially introduced Windows 7. Check out CrunchGear for more coverage and video.
Fake
Some pictures aren’t worth a thousand words. Some are worth a few words. Or maybe half a word.
Why is everything so shiny? It looks pretty bad and over the top.
This whole bubble cutesey aqualicious thing is starting to get crazy. All I can think of the poor, poor graphics cards that have to do deal with it.
Wonder if i’ll stilll be using windows xp by the time this drops.
real meat will be in the web integration features, not the UI
windows remain better positioned than anyone else to truly create a seamless online/offine bridge from desktop to social apps and utilities.
of course, they had been horrible so far, but we can only hope.
Hahahahahaha. A few years out - why would you even publish these?!
how very… linux like
I don’t understand, the screenshots there just show alot of different UIs. How can that be official Windows 7?
The screenshot might be a fake. However, from XP -> Vista -> Mysterious Windows 7. The trend was
Waste more screen space against content, to make shinning visual apeal.
Wider and wider title bars, task bar and borders, as well as larger icons.
Make human operations slower so you feel less that Windows is slower.
These are similar to some I saw recently in a dev bag for Vista. They’re not screen shots so much as renders, but they were official. I think you’ll see the same things tomorrow at D. Nice find, CrunchGear.
There’s no way these are real.
Not many thinks to see in the picture…
Microsoft will be making a Vista-esque mistake if they think that bigger chrome is the way forward. Luckily, it’s still early(ish) in the Windows 7 development cycle, and graphics are unlikely to be well defined so far (although Vista’s early graphics weren’t that far from the final result..). I’d hope to see Windows give OS X a run for its money (and I’m a solid OS X user) by trimming down on the chrome and getting lean. It’s time operating systems got “out of the way” and made it all about the data and the content, and not about reminding users they’re on a computer.
if these screens are fake, prove it and show us where you saw them before today.
lol, at least spread some decent fakes.
I think that the most interesting thing you can see in the screenshots is the birth of a new UI element - The Wheel . I wrote about it more here: http://www.inechmad.com/2008/0.....ation.html
Argh! Look at the SIZE of that menu bar! The shiny, the transparency… Would it kill Microsoft to hire a sane UI designer?
The use of opacity by Microsoft is bit too much “in your face” for my tastes. Mac OSX first used it in a very subtle way that was almost imperceptible as opacity itself but that somehow made things blend together.
Vista took opacity to a new level with all chrome having the glass block see-through look. I remember all of the buzz about having to change your hardware to get the new cool “aero” look and when I finally saw it I thought to myself - this is what the fuss was all about?
Anyways as has been pointed out already it will take a lot more than “window dressing” to put this ship right.
Like TV, like democracy in America…Windows…seems to be a never ending search to find the lowest common denominator. Pretty pictures, ugh, Mbonga like pretty pictures.
I have a Vista laptop, but I find it sort of icky and only use my XP machines regularly. I have become newly entranced by DOS after the bloat of Vista. I got a DOS laptop at the Salvation Army for $22. I’d forgotten how nice such things are as fast boot, reloading OS and apps without registering, just doing word processing without all the security hassles of the Internet, the great BASIC language, and so forth.
I would agree. I think the $4 gas per gallon will change a lot of this..
Meh, you’ve been pranked. As pointed out elsewhere, these were posted on DeviantArt ages ago, created by a teenager in the UK, I believe. Unless you’re saying Microsoft leaked them and posted them under a fake alias.
@shinoda - An image doesn’t have to have previously existed to be fake. I can show you an original MS Paint drawing that I can claim was drawn by you. Nobody will have seen it before but it’s still fake.
Good Effort Crunchgear! Bonus points for style!
Reminds me of KDE. Though a bit mixed with whatever Window Manager the Solaris system at Marquette ran (CDE?)
-Adam
Demo at D = CrunchGear Fail. They are fake, nice try.
By 2010 half the world will be using Ubuntu and the other half Mac OSX
Write that down
Garbage as Usual*
They don’t call it MicroPOOP for nothin’* ;))
I wouldn’t mind going on Paul Allen’s Yacht tho while Cannes is on!!
A general trend in UI-design is making things bigger and removing additional control buttons. It’s great for users that don’t get simple things but really bad for the rest of us.
so fake.
We’ve had it with the eye candy, Billy!
Give us performance!
Give us stability!
Give us faster application load times!
Give us faster boot times! (Don’t tell us that’s a hardware thing! Leverage your market power and strategize with vendors on a new, revolutionary boot scheme!)
Be daring and give us online storage!
Stop OS rot! Keep our registry and filesystem clean of uninstalled application fragments!
Keep our disks defragmented!
Go out on a limb!
Be cool!
Be Google!
Looks Mac ish
@29: Right on the money. Give me less frame, more data. Please. This is an absurd trend. Now I have fat ribbons on top of Office apps that I don’t want or need. MAKE IT STOP
Hmmm looks like KDE…
It’s already confirmed. These are fake screen shots. This post needs to be taken down. Walt mentioned something about a Mac-esque dock in the win7 interview and it seems to have riled people up so much that someone scoured Deviantart looking for any renderings sporting such a design and proclaimed them to be the new win7 UI.
#35 Agree.
If you were to actually check the validity of the screen shots before posting this story then you would find out that all of the screen shots are “mock ups” that people have posted mostly from Deviantart.com . (It helps that I have a DA account) Fact check? Thats only for the readers.
#5 Haha the same as you.
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