Windows 7 Theme
One of the main focus points of Microsoft in the creation of Windows Vista was to make it visually appealing. They spend lots of effort to add eye-candy to the operating system which made many users who wanted a visually pleasing operating system happy. Other users however disliked the eye candy because they associated huge resource usage with it. The step from Windows XP to Windows Vista was a visual one. Everyone who worked with both operating systems for some time could tell the difference between the two.
The available Windows 7 screenshots and Windows 7 videos on the other hand look a lot like Windows Vista; So alike that many users would probably fail to distinguish between Windows 7 and Windows Vista at this point. This could mean two things. Microsoft might be tempted to optimize the eye candy and reduce the hardware requirements instead of adding even more that would put a lot of potential buyers off again because of the increased hardware requirements. The other scenario would be that the eye candy will be added at the end of the development phase or that it simply has not been added yet but is more or less ready to be included.
Windows XP:
Windows Vista:
Windows 7:
The Windows 7 release that is coming out these days will hopefully shed some light on the issue. The good news is that Windows 7 themes will not be that different from Windows Vista themes which essentially means that it will still be possible to patch the relevant system files to add custom themes to the operating system.
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One of the main draw backs on the eye candy of windows vusta was downgrade ability. if you had the hard ware for sweet graphics, you could use it and ut was all good; on the other hand if yu didn’t or just wanted to go back to standard graphics for better performance the only option you had was to:
1. use the uglyest windows theme ever built hands down.
2. use the retro unapealing theme.
non, of these options are worthy of consideration.
No.
Look at the Milestone 1 build of Windows Vista, it used the Luna theme. Microsoft starts out with adding the functions, and in time they will make a new theme. So comparising Vista and Windows 7 when it comes to the looks at the moment is not needed as they will probably change the theme a lot.
I hope Microsoft adds a really cool new theme to Windows 7. People who have performance issues with Vista need to get with the times and upgrade. I mean seriously, its a modern operating system, it isn’t going to have the same requirements of an operating system from back in 2001. People need to start realizing this, I have no problem with Vista. Infact, I love it. If Microsoft where to only decrease the requirements and optimize performance, I wouldn’t have much of a reason to upgrade because my computer is modern and runs Vista super smoothly.
I think they’re going to keep the visuals, upgrade it a BIT, and lower the system requirements somehow
Sorry guys, the correct answer is none of the above.
Windows 7 is all about human interface improvement and out of the box usabilty.
The hardware requirements for Windows 7 are the same as Windows Vista. The level of eye-candy in Windows 7 is ALMOST the same. Flip 3d gets some new modes thankfully.
Resource allocation is a little lower in Windows 7, but the difference is not significant. Windows 7 has some internal code that is designed specifically for multi-core. It is possible that a single core machine will run at a slight disadvantage on Windows 7.
It has been hinted that Windows 8 will be 64 bit only and possibly multi-core only.
Windows 7 should look a lot like Vista, they’re not much different at the core… not different at all:
http://www.winsupersite.com/win7/win7_hereitcomes.asp
Of particular interest from the linked page: “Windows 7 shares the exact same underpinnings as its predecessor and it will work largely in the same way“
The desktop environment has nothing to do with how similar the operating systems are. Screenshots released so far are of alpha/betas, using the DE from vista, and the public still hasn’t seen what the DE will look like in 7. I’d bet every penny I have that it wont look like vista.
I’d bet every penny I have that it wont look like vista.
How much money do you have to loose?
I’m sure there will be a Windows 7 Theme, but, that’s just a theme. I can make Vista look like Ubuntu if I’m so inclined.
I get your point because it was the same thing when Vista was still Longhorn execpt they were at least talking about a “vastly” different interface. The OOB theme will definitely differ from what we have now, that’s starting to show i the leaked screen shots…. I like the translucent taskbar.
If you actually keep track of M1, M2 and M3; you’d notice that differences in GUI are actually being made each time.
Notably, in the Start Menu and Taskbar.
I love Vista’s visuals. PEOPLE… just get a freaking graphics card! I spent a grand total of (i’m looking at my Best Buy receipt right now) $834.14 on my entire system last year February.
Gateway 19″ widescreen monitor
Gateway GT series PC w Intel Pentium Dual-Core 2.2ghz, 2GB ram, 250GB hdd, with Vista Premium.
It was rated at a 3.5. Then i installed the Nvidia 8500 graphics card (512mb version), and the rating went up to 4.7.
My point? Vista’s real (and almost only) downfall, is you need a graphics card on your system for good performance if you’re gonna run anything but Vista Basic.
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Now, what about Windows 7’s performance upgrades?
You’ll still need a graphics card like Vista, but just not as high-end as vista, and your processor will not need to be a dual-core like vista…
I’ve seen (early betas, mind you) if Windows 7 (build 6.1) running an intel pentium 4 2.4ghz, and the rating was 4.9!
Yeah, windows 7 requirements will be lower. I just hope it stays that way.