10.5 Screenshots – Run Windows in the MacOS

I call shenanigans

Please excuse my ignorance, but what is wrong?

could be true, who knows. i’m guessing that’s supposed to be the windows version of explorer running, since the mac version has been dropped?

and tabbed finder windows? hell yes!

About this Mac is displaying Windows information below the Tiger OS info. Windows is presumably running at the same time for fast user switching between OS’s without the need for a reboot.

The only thing that makes this look credible to me is the Address Book/iCal integreated app. But I’m happy to be wrong if thats’ the case. :D

Dammit what’s the world coming to? I can live with Mac and Win at the same time. but iCal and Address book combined? WHY?

What’s next? Will iLive become one application? Please no!

someone’s wet dream.

finder window is too dark, the action button would not have another button coupled with it (it looks like a path oriented thing, that already exists, with a menu-like icon more friendly to the average user), the tabs on the finder are all wrong, so are the scrollbars on the browser (they’re flash scrollbars, and… internet explorer? please), the dashboard-like thing that’s supposed to make us believe it’s some sort of fast user/OS switching would be a roundrect, not a capsule, and “1, 2″ is just not informative, tells the user nothing, and that’s what it is – nothing. Imagine the application switch thing (cmd+tab) as a series of numbers… would be neat, right?

we’ll keep seeing more and more of these fake screenshots, this is a very poor one.

The IE icon is the IE7 icon.

Can someone explain this to me, because I still dont get it. I can see why someone would get a mac if they like the OS, but what is the point of getting a mac if all your going to do is put windows on it?

@ Mike

The cool hardware! Actually I doubt anyone would get a Mac and install Win only on it. I need the dualboot for those silly small applications that have no Mac version. other then those, I’ll only use OSX.

@ takio

You’ve made some very good observations, but I still feel there is some truth in the shot. I believe we’re looking at the future, or just a sample of it. It’s the IE that doesn’t convince me. Didn’t M$ end all support for the Mac version of the app? Why bother? The numbers certainly refer to different desktops. Maybe each can run a different OS? Will be interesting to see what the future holds.

That’s IE7 for Windows. Whoever made this screenshot is trying to imply it runs on a virtualized Windows instance, as suggested by the Boot Camp icon in the menu bar.

Many things are off. OS X apps cannot display changes to their Dock icons while they’re not running as of 10.4. The Finder window is almost perfect, but has no toolbar button in the top right and the path toolbar is not the one being used in 10.4 (and is also merged with Actions, which is completely unrelated — sorry but that’s not a thing Apple would do IMHO).

well, indeed IE for mac will be no more, but you can still grab the latest version and use it. This mixed-up mode of running the windows IE in OSX just seems unconvincing, especially when Apple has clearly stated that it will allow but not support Win on Macs. Why bring so much trouble to the clean side of the fence? This makes the About box even more suspicious. The “OS switching” scenario seems more likely, i’d rather speculate on Apple integrating something like Paralells on Leopard (or simply leaving it to third parties to take care of that as they have done so far) and concentrating on “the mac advantage”, iLife and pro apps.

i just hope Apple is watching and taking care of giving us what we want :) like tabbed finder windows and other such niceties. I’m thinking of producing a fake screenshot myself and see how many mistakes people find in it, it’s a fun way of generating discussion on the user wishlist!

If the browser running is in fact IE7, I would assume that it’s somehow utilizing Windows to run in OS X, like using Windows as a background environment or something. Either that or Leopard will use some kind of on-the-fly code translation, which *does* actually exist, and is developed by the same company behind the Rosetta technology that Intel Macs use (http://www.transitive.com/technology.htm). Or maybe it’s a Firefox skin? I don’t know.

As far as the Finder UI, it’s consistent with iTunes 5, so I find it believable. I’d actually find it surprising if Brushed Metal survived through three major OS updates.

And as for the “Command+Tab”-like 1-2 menu, I don’t find that to unbelievable either. Oversimplified, maybe, but not impossible. Remember this is Apple, not Microsoft….there’s not going to be a dialog box that says “Do you really want to switch to the alternate Operating System environment?” :P

And last but not least- if true, this would be Beta software; thus a lot of features seen here might be in rudimentary stages, or may not even make it into the final product.

That’s the end of my $0.02 for now…

He got Leopard just to run IE?!? What a disappointment!

This is photoshop.

Of course it’s photoshop. Jobs’ got his crew sworn to secrecy or instant death for them ^__^

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