Posts Tagged ‘Build 6780’

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Well, if the build hasn’t circulated yet, the motherload of screenshot collections of it has hit the net, courtesy of WinFuture.de. Click the photo of the desktop below to be taken to the site where you will currently find 115 screenshots of the build!

Reference: WinFuture.de

-Stephen

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Update: Content from thinknext.net has been removed.

Zhou, the guy from thinknext.net who fears not the powers of the Sinofsky, has come through again and posted some videos of Windows 7 build 6780. I’ll direct-link to the videos, then below are links to all of the screenshots currently floating around out there of this build (including the ones I posted). Lastly, I’ve written a summary of what we know about this build up to this point. If more surfaces, I’ll just update this post. Feel free to comment if you know of anything elsewhere that I’ve missed. If (or when) the build leaks, I won’t bother keeping up with this thread any longer.

Videos:

Screenshot Links:

Link 1: UXEvangelist WordPad UI
Link 2: UXEvangelist MS Paint UI
Link 3: ThinkNext Plethora of Shots
Link 4: ThinkNext Sidebar Search

Windows 7 Build 6780 (M3) Miscellaneous Information:

- The sidebar appears to be missing from this build. Gadgets still “snap” into place, though.

- There is a “light” version of WMP in this build which supposedly has a very quick load time.

- This build contains new wallpapers.

- Those with the build have commented that 6780 is a very responsive build and great on performance.

- WordPad and Paint have been given a UI overhaul with the ribbon bar being integrated in place of the traditional menu. Additional functionality has been added to Paint. The Calculator and PowerShell UI’s have also been overhauled.

- Slight UI differences are present throughout various places in the build; start menu, taskbar, explorer, etc.

More if/when it comes in!

-Stephen

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Update: Content from thinknext.net has been removed.

This week has definitely been productive! Here, we have brand new screenshots of build 6780. They’re running on hardware with Aero enabled. Here are a few shots (out of 35+). Check out the site below the pics for the rest, which includes more shots of the ribbon-laden Paint and WordPad applications (but with Aero enabled). I wonder if this is the guy who sent me some shots anonymously… lol. Anyway, on to the pictures!

Reference: thinknext.net

-Stephen

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Let me start by saying I am extremely grateful to the people who are giving me the opportunity to post this information. I’m not one for acting over-priviledged, so let me clarify that I’m just a medium here. I don’t know who the people are behind these screenshots, but as far as I’m concerned, all the credit goes to them, so, thank you, whoever you are!

This time, I’m able to bring you a screenshot of the WordPad UI. As you can see, it essentially looks just like Word 2007. These two screenshots show that the ribbon UI is indeed making its way into even the most basic applications of Windows as Bill Gates stated it would earlier in the year. How useful that implementation will be in the end won’t be fully determined until Windows 7 goes gold, but for now, it’s cool to see their ideas being implemented up to this point. What do you think about the continuity of the ribbon UI being used in Windows 7? I’ve mainly seen 2 types of opinions up until now and they’re both the extremes of one another; people either love the ribbon bar or they despise it. See my write-up a couple of posts down to make the link between my previous notation of generalized specifics and this screenshot. For the record, .docx files are not yet supported. I certainly hope they are by 2009/2010. Anyway, onward to the screenshot!

Windows 7 M3 Build 6780 WordPad UI:

(Click the picture for the full-resolution image)

Until next time, friends!

-Stephen