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Windows Vista & IE7 Beta 1 Released
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Zonk
on Thu Jul 28, 2005 07:49 AM
from the and-so-it-begins dept.
from the and-so-it-begins dept.
gdsotirov writes "Today on the IE blog the availability of two new beta tests - Windows Vista Beta 1 and Internet Explorer 7 Beta 1 - was announced. These tests are mainly targeted to developers and IT professionals. Thus the betas are only available to MSDN subscribers. Tom's Hardware has details as well." From the article: "While the code also includes an early look at the new user-interface design, the majority of end-user features in Windows Vista will not be included until Beta 2. In addition to these fundamentals, Windows Vista Beta 1 also includes the Internet Explorer 7 Beta 1 built into the platform. The technical Beta of Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP SP2 also is available today." Any early thoughts, MSDN subscribers?
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Early Thoughts (Score:5, Funny)
Nothing to see here, please move along.
Re:The Pirate Bay (Score:5, Insightful)
Just because you can't afford it doesn't mean you are entitled to a copy of it.
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Re:The Pirate Bay (Score:5, Insightful)
Either mac osx and linux are viable desktop os's or they aren't but you can't pretend they are half the time and then pretend ms has no competition the rest of the time.
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THis again (Score:5, Funny)
So they're trying this again are they?
As an MSDN Subscriber... (Score:5, Funny)
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Anyone see any bit torrents yet? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Anyone see any bit torrents yet? (Score:5, Informative)
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MSDN subscribers? (Score:5, Funny)
"Any early thoughts, MSDN subscribers?"
Do those actually read Slashdot?
For the first time I agree with John C Dvorak. (Score:5, Interesting)
For the first time I agree with John C Dvorak.
pcmag [pcmag.com]
"Vista? As in "Hasta la Vista, baby?" That name might be appropriate as a symbolic goodbye since it might be the end of the line for Microsoft's dominance in the OS business."
"The new OS is getting zero buzz. Zero. now the name Vista, along with the new Microsoft Vista logo, has made it worse. Could anything be less exciting?"
"THE FUTURE OF DESKTOP COMPUTING: Apple. Vista will open the door to what I believe will be a radical change in the computing landscape. The trends are clear. Once the new Mac OS appears next year it will gravitate toward the existing x86 community much more rapidly than anticipated..."
"Right now, and as much as x86 users do not want to admit it, the Mac OS is already better than Windows in its modern look and feel as well as its functionality. I see too many smart people with Mac laptops nowadays."
"...it is always possible that Apple doesn't understand the power play position it's in and might actually believe that it's better off somehow keeping its OS in a small niche rather than the big market. If the world changed tomorrow to 85 percent Mac "OS x86" its laptop sales alone would triple overnight. Apple didn't put together what many consider the finest in-house industrial design teams in the world to fool around with piddly sales and more redesigns of the iPod."
"That said, how much more of Steve Jobs can we handle? Do we really want to hear him say "I told you so?" If it gets some excitement back into desktop computing, yes, we do. I think we can take it."
Uhhh... (Score:5, Funny)
A Slashdotter agreeing with John C. Dvorak, who is saying nice things about Apple?
Quick, can someone post a current weather report for Hell, please?
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Re:Uhhh... (Score:5, Funny)
Here you go [bbc.co.uk] - apparently it's cold and rainy there today, but improving by next week.
Oh, hang on, you said Hell? Surely the two are synonymous?
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Or, Michigan, better yet (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Uhhh... (Score:5, Funny)
It's windy here right now, Craig, but as you can see on the horizon, the storm clouds are gathering. As we go to the satellite, you can see in the southern region of Hell, Dvorak's comments have unleashed a massive cold front, which is quite different from the hot air that we're used to from him. That by itself wouldn't be a huge problem, but to the North, in Gehenna, we've got the fallout caused by the Slashdotter agreeing with Dvorak. We've never seen that before, and Craig, I don't have to tell you, nobody knows what these two systems will do when they get together. In the mean time I'll be here. Back to you, Craig.
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Seriously... (Score:5, Insightful)
The privacy statement for Internet Explorer 7.0 beta lists a "phishing filter," which is said to be capable of warning users about the possibility that the Web site currently being visited is impersonating a trusted Web site. This feature is turned off by default
Why bother creating a feature like this and having it turned off by default. The people most likely to be taken in by a phishing scam seem to me to be the same people who won't know enough about a computer to turn this feature on to protect themselves. The more tech and internet savvy people could turn this off if it annoys them.
but in order for it to be used properly, the Web site's address and other information about the user's computer, are sent to Microsoft for automatic evaluation.
Then again it does scare me a little that MS would be taking a peek at my browsing habits. Hopefully it just asks a big database full of bad websites whether or not this one is good. I'd like to think that MS wouldn't be keeping tabs on my online activity. Makes me wonder if this is why that bought Gator... I mean Claria.
At last ! Revenge on Mac ! (Score:5, Funny)
Cool. IE7 has priveledge seperation (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Cool. IE7 has priveledge seperation (Score:5, Funny)
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OS redundancy? (Score:5, Interesting)
So in other words, beta 1 is just XP with RSS? They already yanked everything else out of the system as is. The reason they call it Vista is because that's all that's left of the OS; a view.
Windows Vista is visually intuitive! (Score:5, Interesting)
- Glass and new Window animation. The Windows Vista desktop experience will deliver a new visual identity -- translucent glass with more animation. Because it is visually intuitive, the glass helps users focus on the task at hand, whether reading a document, viewing a Web page or editing a photo.
Apparently the best way to develop a "visually intuitive" user interface is glass and more animation!
Paul Thurrott Review (Score:5, Informative)
It goes through the vast majority of new features, although doesn't go into a great deal of depth at this early stage. Seems there are no great surprises here - Vista is still very much watered down from initial promises - but apparently things are at least moving along noticably now.
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Firefox's feature list? (Score:5, Insightful)
So far so good (Score:5, Informative)
If I feel brave enough (and our webmasters think they can survive a potential Slashdotting ;-) ) I'll put up some blog entries about my experiences over the next few days.
"Get home earlier with Windows Vista" (Score:5, Funny)
Thank you Windows Vista!
Re:Majority of end-user features not included... (Score:5, Informative)
Also includes some kind of "phishing site checker", RSS support (picks them out from page and can display from a single button), pop-up blocking, easy history deletion.
Seems pretty stable and not too memory hungry... so far
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Re:some FFT [food for thought] (Score:5, Interesting)
Oh let's return to the good old days where programmers had two big keys with 0 and 1 written on them and programmed opcodes like playing bongos..
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