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#2729658 16-Jun-2021 14:23

I'm curious how will the navigation panel look like when a lot of apps are running, on all screenshots there the number of icons Imo artificially added to make it look nice and even.

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#2729700 16-Jun-2021 16:20

Most important aspect of this new version, the new Windows 11 startup sound:

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#2729715 16-Jun-2021 17:01

Task bar has a lot of mac os overtones to it.

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#2729720 16-Jun-2021 17:11

Windows really is grandads axe.

It'd really kill them to have a consistent UI? Computer management still looks like something out of Windows Vista

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#2729788 16-Jun-2021 17:41

Handle9:

It'd really kill them to have a consistent UI? Computer management still looks like something out of Windows Vista

Computer Management is much older than Windows Vista, so at least that's consistent. I want to see Windows return to the good old days with OK, Apply and Cancel, not an interface dumbed down for touch screens (where are those?). The fact that all these old applications still exist shows how hard it is to make a clear and consistent interface in the modern style.

If I could choose a look and feel for Windows, I'd select that of Windows NT 5 Beta 2 which I recall liking just a little bit more than the RTM Windows 2000. I used Windows 2000 until the bitter end, skipping Teletubbie land altogether at home, although I was forced to the horrendous Windows XP Pro x64 Edition at work.

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#2729816 16-Jun-2021 19:03

Wakrak:
Random thought. Be cool if the start menu could be switched to a right click on an empty part of the screen. Double click brings up that default right click menu.

nah, surely middle click like X?

Also, to throw out another random … how long before windows becomes *nix based.

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#2729819 16-Jun-2021 19:11

MadEngineer:

Also, to throw out another random … how long before windows becomes *nix based.

That'd be never - they tried to rebuild the OS with Windows RT and it was such a disaster that I can't see anything like that again.

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#2729836 16-Jun-2021 19:54

MadEngineer:
Wakrak:

Random thought. Be cool if the start menu could be switched to a right click on an empty part of the screen. Double click brings up that default right click menu.

nah, surely middle click like X?

I'd like to see RISC OS-style file selection/mousing. Drag with Select (button 1) to select the files you want, then click Adjust (button 3) on the ones you don't want to deselect them. Click Select on Close to close a file window. Click Adjust on it to open the parent. Double Select-click a file to open it. Double Adjust-click it to open it and close the current window. Etc.

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#2729839 16-Jun-2021 20:00

Oh love me some WIMP RISC-OS. We had the pleasure of using what were Glaxo-funded Acorn computers at my intermediate school. I'd never seen BASIC running so damn fast.

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#2729843 16-Jun-2021 20:13

littlehead:

Most important aspect of this new version, the new Windows 11 startup sound:

Sounds Nintendo Wii-esque

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#2729872 16-Jun-2021 22:31

I'm curious about this from the video and websites linked:

As far as I'm seeing, it looks the same as US QWERTY layout.

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#2729875 16-Jun-2021 23:14

I'm really dubious about stuff leaking these days. I doubt it actually leaked and is just the "publicity by leak" marketing campaign we see so much of with Apple.

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#2729879 17-Jun-2021 00:47

So Apple move from OS X (10) , and it is now OS 11. Didn't think it would be long for Windows to also move to that number. Also gives them the opportunity to charge for a new version. So much for Windows 10 being the last version and future updates for people on 10 being free. If Windows 10 ends and is replaced with Windows 11, then those free updates will also surely end when it reaches EOL, and people won't just get a free upgrade to windows 11? But windows 10 end of support is 2025, so windows 11 has to be legit. Don't like the position of the start button, looks unbalanced. But MS seems intent of getting rid of the windows button from that location, which they did in windows 8 which was a mess.

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#2729880 17-Jun-2021 00:51

Well I've installed it on one of my older Lenovo's - this seems too good to actually be a leak after playing around with it for some time.

- All drivers installed from Windows Update.
- Windows update actually ran updates on it.
- Automatically activated with a digital license (Windows 7)
- Seems stable...?!

This doesn't feel like a dev build. It has quite a bit of polish to it.

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#2729882 17-Jun-2021 01:24

gbwelly:

networkn:

That W7 was Vista SP3.

I'll die on this hill. Windows 7 was 6.1 Vista was 6.0. Vista got so much hate that even though most of the issues were resolved by SP2, and consumer hardware had caught up to actually run it, MS had to dump the brand. Call it 7, stick a humming bird on it, tweak the aero theme and send it.

Windows 8 was worse. They got rid of the start button, and it was so crippled. They had to release updates to make it usable . Windows 10 was the fixed version of 8. Just like 7 was the fixed version of vista.

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