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I spent a lot of time during Longhorn's early days debunking fake screenshots people had created of Microsoft's then-next-OS. It's happening again with Windows 7, of course. And while I'd like to keep this kind of thing to a minimum, this video is fake.

Not just fake. Fake, fake, fake. Really fake. Obviously fake. Stupidly fake. The "screen capture" part shows off SnagIt, a third party application I use nearly every single day. This is "didn't even try hard" fake.

So please don't email me about it. But please do feel free to ridicule and/or ignore those who weren't savvy enough to figure it out.

Moving on....

Published May 14 2008, 10:44 AM by pthurrott
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Comments

 

mjw149 said:

Yeah, Emil is a new blogger at arstechnica and is still learning the ropes.  He's been driving me crazy by posting MS PR releases nearly verbatim.  I was shocked at how many people took it seriously, to the point that I started to question myself.

On a side-topic, what is the chance that apps on 7 will be re-written in WPF or in .Net in some form?

May 14, 2008 8:55 AM
 

mdsharpe said:

Hilariously fake. Kinda sad that anyone would believe that it was real.

I share mjw149's interest in WPF apps though. Top on my list of apps that need to be re-done in WPF is Windows Live Messenger.

May 14, 2008 12:15 PM
 

clindhartsen said:

Well, since Vista has been considered the groundwork for future products, you can probably be assured they will utilize WPF more in future products, let alone products likely to be upgraded within Vista over the next few years.

May 15, 2008 10:24 PM

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