Long's Longhorn Screenshot

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I had never seen this screen before ... parts of it.* It reminds me of all the things that got changed by committee - when they were so cool before..

 

examples:

 

- The big back button - and small forward - shows only if needed

* Committee:* Put both on screen - at all times - at same size

 

- The invisible address bar - helps get rid of rectangle/bar overload

* Committee: Make it visible at all times - even if it make IE look like 12 bars in a row

 

- The redish - expandable top options bar

** Committee: Make them unexpandable, make them all puke green, make the selected preview*pic un-3d and flat, add yet another bar at the bottom

 

- Top right preview icons (either open apps, or related - not sure - looked cool though. Also the top menu bar is all one piece

* Committee: make the top bar the same as xp - but make it go black if mazimized, remove the cool graphical icons - add more text to UI

 

- Show albums as album covers

* Commitee: Put album covers coming out of folders so you can only see half the cover

 

- Startbar -* it is kind of wacky - but the concept was there: Use a full width panel - not a little flyout / integrate sidebar - make ONE metaphor for controling win UI not 2

*- Committee: put it back like XP, remove all the icons, make text small, remove user name, remove all references to MY computer (as it is now ms's computer

 

 

sigh...

 

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