Article:		A First Look at Longhorn
Subject:		new "Features"
Date:		2004-05-26 05:23:42
From:		chekote
Well I am definately underwhelmed at the moment. Sure it looks nice, but so did XP. I was expecting a host of revolutionary features, but at the moment it just looks like a slightly modified XP. Hopefully they are just keeping the real big features under wraps until they are closer to ship date. The "3D Desktop" is kind of pointless, unless it does a lot more than the alt-tab switching. Thats just an existing feature skewed into the 3rd dimension. It doesnt add any extra functionality at all. Just looks like a gimmick to me...

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• new "Features"
  2004-06-25 12:55:42  xeroply [View]
  
  
  XP looks "nice" if you have an aesthetic sensibility strongly reminiscent of Fisher Price toys.
  
  (OK, to be fair I liked the new buttons and tabs a lot, but the giant plastic-y window borders were so awful I shut off the whole "Luna" theme)
  
  I talked to a guy recently who is working for MS on Longhorn. He's on 3 projects: glitch-free media playback, the new full-3D drawing system, and a third one he wasn't allowed to talk about. So maybe there's some hope for revolutionary features yet.