A Quick Peek at Longhorn

Eight screen captures of new interface: Wow, perhaps there's still a lot of work being done on the UI, but this just seems to have a lot of design issues. I don't know if it's Mac OS envy or what, but Microsoft appears to be abandoning many of its own XP Icon Style and overall UI conventions and I don't understand why. This could cause problems for developers who have finally caught up to creating software with the XP UI design in mind. I'm curios to see how this continues to develop...