NetRyder said:128MB of VRAM will certainly not be a requirement to run the OS.
The presentation subsystem in LH is going to be multi-tiered. The top-most tier will need a good graphics card that's DX9-compliant and supported by the new driver model (LDDM). This will be the fancy tier, with all the animations, shadows, alpha-blending (and whatever else is planned) turned on. There will be other tiers below that with less demanding requirements. The lowest tier will quite possibly be a XP-like UI (think of it as the "Windows Classic" of LH). It's a similar concept to the "Best Performance" vs. "Best Appearance" settings in XP, but with much more marked differences between the different tiers.
NetRyder said:...Nobody's holding a gun to your head, forcing you to upgrade.
I didn't think it was bad at all either. They just need to kill the purple though. Make those parts blue as well. But as I said, it's almost surely going to change before RTM day. Let's see what they can do with it.Luna said:Love the GUI on there. Not sure what the fuss is about.
Can't wait for Longhorn
Hehe true.Electronic Punk said:I think they mispelt Paul Thurrott's NDA, so it stands for Does Not Apply. Hah!
Wanna know whats funny? If we linked to this article on the frontpage and included some of this material, MS would contact me and tell me to remove it as it is a breach of NDA - they have done this to Neowin several times.
SPeedY_B said:Please tell me that I'm not alone in thinking that looks absolutely vile?! Nice features, but the barf-o-rific GUI has to go
dave holbon said:As do the three hundred Attorneys MS employs!