LongHorn (Build 5048)

Winbeta's Exclusive Review

Published on April 26, 2005 By Black Xero In WinCustomize News

Winbeta has an exclusive review of Longhorn 5048 Build (Presented at WinHEC). Along with other new features, two most important and striking features are DWM and Redesigned Start Menu.

DWM or The Desktop Window Manager is a component that manages window policies, behaviors and visual appearance.

Redesigned Start Menue

If you're like me, your programs menu has no doubt become a massive, unwieldy list of programs, with multiple panes on the fly-out menu. That's a real nuisance. In this build, a scrolling list of your programs is built in a subwindow on the left side of the start menu. Also, a small dialog entry box lives at the bottom of the start menu.

If your list of applications is very long, just start typing an app name in this box. As you type, Windows will make a guess as to the name, making the scrolling list shorter as you type more letters. It's a great boon for users with tons of programs.

For more info. have a look at link provided.

Comments

Hus

on Apr 26, 2005

Is it just me or does Microsoft hire sub-standard skinners? Luna was amateurish at best...and they say this is supposed to compete with OSX? It's laughable...someone needs to point Microsoft at some of the good skinners we have on this site...

Essencay

on Apr 27, 2005

Not liking the scrolling menu list. I hope the keep the personalized menu style, used in the start menu and favorites menu, as an option.

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