New Windows 7 Builds show ‘new’ Boot Screen
The Windows Team has been continuing to work towards the first BETA release of Windows 7. PDC 2008 previewed some of improvements to the desktops, but Microsoft is not stopping there for this release. The website CNBeta has a video of the latest build 6956 shown at WinHEC 2008 in China, and a new Boot screen animation is now a part of the boot sequence. Check it out:
The Boot animation features 3 glowing blurs combining to form glowing logo. Kinda hard to describe to be honest. :P
Windows Vista currently has a boot screen animation, but its quite conservative with just a simple glowing effect. A lot of folks on enthusiast websites such as NeoWin.net have been discussing this particularly non-interesting part of Windows to most average users. Its one thing for sure, Microsoft is making a major UI overhaul of the Windows interface and its in the details. Its also said that Microsoft will be allowing OEM’s to edit the boot sequence. I remember reading an article on Paul Thurrott’s WinSupersite indicating the reason for Vista’s conservative boot sequence was to actually improve and shorten the boot time. Removing the graphical distractions actually shaved 12 seconds off the boot up time. I have been running Windows 7 6801 exclusively since last months PDC 2008 and even in this build the boot sequence looks sexy. Definitely looking forward to testing this update. I just hope they have device drivers ready for my Geforce FX 6200 512 MB AGP. :)
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