[font=Arial][font=Verdana]I was at a Microsoft meeting in Chicago and one of the presenters had a demo of windows longhorn and he did this[/font] [/font]
You can already flip through the windows by hitting Alt+ Tab. You can even see a preview of what the window looks like.
I think that is possible using TweakUI or the PowerToys, but it isnāt nearly as cool as the slightly slanted look 
but the the edges are really messed up, Iām not sure if thatās just because itās resized or because itās coming from microsoft :P, anyways, itās gonna get really confusing when the top window is not the one highlighted on the bottom like in the picture :h:
They need anti-aliasing.
Thatās what I was talking about. The current way (TweakUI or PowerToys) seems more functional though. You can see the whole window in that, not just the first 100 pixels or so. Weāll have to wait to see that implemented in a more than screenshot media type before we can judge it too much. :sure:
That alone would make most old PCs incapable of running Longhorn 
Yeah i already know that 
but you wont get this screen if you do it now.
I think it is low quality, so you donāt kill your graphics card loading the windows up all 3D like. [color=black][font=Arial]Shifting thought the windows like a deck of cards.[/font][/color]
Yeah - this seems really cool. I think this 3D feature is what was once called Chrome Effects; which they were showcasing for Windows 98 during the introduction of AGP and MMX about 4 or 5 years ago.
Iām sure by the time 2005/2006 rolls around, majority of all PCs that should upgrade to Longhorn will be capable of displaying these 3D effects. I doubt it takes up that much system resources now that I think about it.
yeah, but one, the aliasing still looks worse than the cool alt+tab menu and two, it doesnāt show as much 
dont know if this link was posted, i saw an older post fromt he same site though
just my thoughts,
some one said about windows being the only os in india, didnt a linux company get a big contract there?
about the 3d stuff. you already do tha ith linux, and sun are doing ther own version, which is a whole desktop called project looking glass.
more proff that windows jus rips of everybody else
The colors on the phone thing are really coolā¦reminds me of this site a little bit hehe. Actually, the 3D interface has been in works since the mid/late 1990s. It was called Chrome Effects. I donāt think any other company was doing this 3d interface applicable to something as widely used as Windows at that time.
Here is an article from 1998 about it: http://www.winnetmag.com/Article/ArticleID/17918/17918.html
MS comes up with a lot of technologies on its own aslo, but other companies are able to bring it to market quicker because of their relatively low user base that is not comprised off non-educated computer users 
Wow, looks like a non-consistant and ugly version of OS X.
Microsoft wants to patent the double click
The stupid idiots didnāt even invent it.
I hate Microsoft. I hope IKEA (arenāt they richer than MS now, or something?) buys out Microsoft. But I donāt think a furnature company will buy Microsoft. :upset: Too bad, IKEA could make Windows look pretty without ripping some other design.
hehe - no, the story about the founder of Ikea being richer than BG were false MS is currently worth: 309 Billion, and the only company that even come close to taking them over is GE - worth about 330 billion.
Itās only pre-release after all. The Chrome Effects was from 1997/1998. If Iām not mistaken, Appleās OS X with their 3d-like features came out only recently.
um 309 < 330 
?
Yeah - GE is worth about 30 billion more, so they are the only ones that could consider buying MS! So yes, 309 < 330.
oh that made me think that you mean they came close, but didnāt hmā¦
There were rumors of that in the early 90ās (when MS was a āsmallā company), but instead, GE allowed itās NBC division to collaborate with MS and create a new network called MSNBC
EDIT: I should have phrased your quoted sentence better. GE has not shown any interest in buying MS for a really really really really long time. They are the only company that can buy them outright because of the numbers I gave earlier.
[size=1]EDIT2: I got my numbers from [/size][size=1]http://quote.yahoo.com[/size][size=1] (symbols GE and MSFT)[/size]
hmmmmm,
I wonder if the fact that GE is 1 of the 8 companyās that make Nuclear bomb components has anything to do with itās wealth.
It would have been a very prosperous time for them during the cold warā¦.
Hell if they can make parts for a nuclear bomb they can make a fridge for me any day.
EDIT:
Or is there only 7 companyās that make THE bomb parts ?
I have no idea - GE is big in consumer appliances, airplane engines, lightbulbs!!, and capital services (whatever that means :)). They grew the most in the last 10 years, but they were a really big company for decades though.
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