Longhorn Video

[mike2]

http://www.visstudios.com/4018_DCE-effects-xBetas.mpg

Edit: I realised that I posted this to the wrong forum...Someone move it please to Chit Chat

[DiGiTaIErRoR]

That's pretty stupid....

[dis1411]

i dont know about stupid but there is a good chance it's fake

[NoteMe]

Why should it be fake?

I like the idea about having a 3D desktop, as long as the GPU does the work. Then it will actually be less strain for the CPU then it is today, and you can flip around your webbrowser and write notes on the back..

[Edneeis]

You can do most of that now (at least the wavy window bit):

http://www.stardock.com/products/windowfx/
http://www.stardock.com/video/winfx21.wmv

I don't see a pratical use for it though.

I think the stronger point is that Longhorn uses Vector based graphics.

[DiGiTaIErRoR]

Longhorn's GUI is fully hardware accelerated(a good video card can take quite the work-load off the CPU).

But when I move a window, I want it to move. I don't want to see it wave around the screen or fly to my taskbar(my window animation is off, and see windows contents while dragging is on). I prefer functional things! Rather than eye-candy which only slows functioning.

[dis1411]

Originally posted by NoteMe
Why should it be fake?

I like the idea about having a 3D desktop, as long as the GPU does the work. Then it will actually be less strain for the CPU then it is today, and you can flip around your webbrowser and write notes on the back..

it 'should' be fake, because someone could have just made it and claimed that its from microsoft

a 3D desktop is not what is in the video....

if you want a desktop that is actually 3D/spacial there is a program (sphere something?) that does it

[NoteMe]

Yeah like the SUN project...but that is not 3D accelerated...so then the whole point is gone. Then it is actually causeing more strain on the CPU then our desktop is doing at the moment...

http://wwws.sun.com/software/looking_glass/details.html

[DiGiTaIErRoR]

3D desktops would simply confuse people even more.

[Pc_Madness]

Originally posted by dis1411
it 'should' be fake, because someone could have just made it and claimed that its from microsoft

a 3D desktop is not what is in the video....

if you want a desktop that is actually 3D/spacial there is a program (sphere something?) that does it

Its not fake.

What was it that MS decided to remove from Longhorn? The SQL backend for it?

[NoteMe]

Originally posted by DiGiTaIErRoR
3D desktops would simply confuse people even more.

I like to confuse people...

[Pc_Madness]

For those interested (and enough power )

Sphere
http://www.hamar.sk/sphere

[Ideas Man]

Nah, it's real, it was shown at the PDC last year.