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A few days ago Kevin Rose pointed out the some what disappointing screen shots of the new Longhorn beta. Well here are some more courtesy of this man and his virtual pc.

In all honesty this looks like Windows XP after someone has tried out a few different icons, installed some random themes, decided they didn’t like what they saw, so went through the registry trying to remove them, only getting rid of half of it and mangling the rest. I know this isn’t the final version and it’s completely unfair to judge the OS at this stage but this is horrible. Have they learned nothing from Apple? Nothing from the open source community? My Gnome 2.10 desktop at work looks a thousand times better than this and that’s a freely available desktop environment that’s a mishmash of hundreds of independently developed packages. Consistency is the main thing done wrong here along with an overall lack of innovation.

I can feel Steve Jobs breathing down the back of my neck harder than ever now. If this is where the Windows platform is headed, this is where I get off.

Today I started shopping for a Mac.