Windows 7 Gets a Dose of High Octane... Wallpapers

[RiotSniperX]

[citation][nom]ceteras[/nom]Nice try. I've always wondered if people at M$ really care about how windows looks... I mean their bundled wallpapers usually suck.Now, these ones are plain ugly! I wouldn't put any of them on my desktop.I think it's really nice we get to know so much about this new OS before launch, and W7 seems to be a good OS. But these ... no way![/citation]

Thats...why you can change them...

 

[cliffro]

[citation][nom]your_mama[/nom]Awwwful! Did some 7 year old draw those with MS paint? Tsiizz.[/citation]
I'd be more impressed if one had. As it is though, I personally don't really like them much.

 

[acecombat]

I won't be using any of those wallpapers, but I guarantee my fiance will love that one with the hearts all over it!!!

 

[jsloan]

reallu ugly, lame wall papers.

 

[Guest]

i actually like the ones that came with the beta

 

[scryer_360]

ooo, shiny

 

[randomizer]

Oh yea, I'm making a collage of these. Can't have one, must have them all.

 

[Guest]

People are smoking Pot @ M$.....

 

[Guest]

OMG & Facepalm.

 

[tequilaguru]

Fugly is too short a word to describe them

 

[neiroatopelcc]

I thought the wallpapers were with cars or other gasoline based engines ... why else bother with octane?

 

[mamw93]

pointless...

 

[warezme]

more like creepy...

 

[ivorycruncher]

Wow, new wallpaper is the best feature of a new OS, even though that wallpaper can be installed in any other operating system that exists? Genius. Furthermore, those wallpapers are indeed ugly. In fact, I don't like any of the built-in themes Windows 7 currently has.

I like cool wallpaper as much as the next guy, but as stunning as many of the wallpaper options have been in Windows Vista/7, most of them are unusable. Why, you ask? BECAUSE I CAN'T SEE MY ICONS. I refuse to use wallpaper that is so blinding that I have a hard time finding icons on the desktop because of it. It's not that I can't find them, but it shouldn't have to be a chore to do.

I generally find images that have enough darker color around the outer edges so I have places to put the icons where one can easily see them. Microsoft needs to drop Apple's form-over-function mentality with this stuff and actually give us themes that not only look good, but are reasonably functional as well, and finding usable wallpaper is as good a place as any to start.

 

[Dave_69]

Ugly. I'll stick to my contemporary Mike Swanson photographs, thank you very much.

 

[Dave_69]

Nevermind my previous comment. They're not just ugly, they're bowling shoe ugly. My 6 year old son thinks they look like Pokemon. How nice for him.

 

[eyemaster]

They aren't that bad. Some remind me of Xmas stop scene movies while others remind me more of Hello Kitty with are going to be popular with that crowd. MS is hitting it right, getting the right crowd that actually will use them. For most of the people here, tech geeks, I don't think MS could ever please that crowd and we'll be using our own anyway. Win - Win situation.

 

[jsloan]

the new wallpapers are really gay. wtf were they thinking.

 

[Dave_69]

Gay is an understatement. These royally suck. They could suck a golf ball through a garden hose.

 

[Guest]

Ur gay. The creepy rabbit looking wallpaper sits on my desktop right now and is, in my OPINION, awesome. Maybe it doesn't appeal to those who aren't creative enough to appreciate it. It has a depth to it, a surreal, dark humor. I love it. I tried to switch to one of the nice Architectural wallpapers but had to come back to this one. It inspires me.