Windows 7 Leaking Like Crazy
By Davey Winder in Editorial
Posted in Blog, Windows, Microsoft on
Microsoft probably doesn’t like it very much. Actually scrap that, Microsoft definitely doesn’t like it at all. However, there seems little it can do about the fact that screen shots of Windows 7, specifically the M3 Build 6780, have been popping up online this week. The Internet will do what it does best, and ensure that those images live on no matter what steps are taken to have them removed. Web content: once up, never down. I want that on a T-Shirt.
Microsoft only started the release of ‘Milestone 3′ Windows 7 builds on or around the 12th September, and I am surprised that it took the best part of a week for the screen shots to start permeating across the Web. That said, and fair play to Microsoft, it had managed pretty well in preventing leakage up until this point (if you discount the early Milestone 1 leaks a year ago that is) and Milestone 2 never really saw the light of day online.
The UX Evangelist blog promises truly unique Microsoft content, and seems to be delivering. While a screen shot of WordPad might not ordinarily be the most exciting thing you have ever seen, when it is the WordPad UI from Windows 7 M3 Build 6780 it starts to take on a whole new dimension.
From this single definitely we can see, for example, that it has a definite Office 2007 feel about it. In fact, it looks very similar, stinkingly so, to Word 2007 in many ways. Not least thanks to the inclusion of the ‘Ribbon UI’ which I understand will be a prominent feature of Windows 7. Mind you, I am also led to believe that while WordPad gets the Ribbon, NotePad thankfully does not. There is a limit, I would suggest, as to how far the line in terms of basic applications such a UI change is needed.
The ThinkNext Blue blog, at least I think that is what it is called (it is a bit hard to tell, to be honest) has even more detailed screen shots. In fact, it goes way beyond just exposing the WordPad UI, with images of everything from the new Start Menu (with a change in look to the search box and shutdown buttons, plus a simplified right panel) through to detail of the new User Account Control which the blogger says only appeared once during and form this concludes that Microsoft is reigning in its use in Windows 7 when compared with Vista.
Other little points revealed from the screen shots here include the changing of My Documents to Libraries in the Windows 7 My Computer screen, and some new Control Panel items and system icons.
Microsoft has only itself to blame about the prominence these leaked screens will take, after all it has decided to pretty much clamp tight shut with regard to talking about Windows 7 to the media this time around. So what does it expect, that we will all just sit around and twiddle our thumbs until it wants us to get hyped up over the Beta release in December? Sorry Mr Ballmer, that just ain’t gonna happen. We all know you are bonkers, but I didn’t think you were that daft.
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