MS Max Review

Ok I ain’t gonna lie, I downloaded and Installed MS Codename Max (they’re becoming obsessed with ‘codename’ now) thinking it was going to be prettey rubbish…and like usual I was very much right.

Heres the little review I promised.

Installation

I downloaded the installer from the MS Max website at 117kb I knew that it was going to download the installation packages itself as it went on. It took me ages, I said it was installing and i’d write the review after i’d restart. Well it took so long to install (P4 2.4ghz 640MB Ram) that I got boerd and forgot about it. Finally after a restart I had to install it again! This time it worked and I got the program running.

The program

Okay so I got it running and I opened it up with not many expectations. It has a half decent layout which is good if you want to get to know how Longhorn (should I say ‘Vista’) is going to look. To be very honest it is probably better then most Microsoft designs, but its old news and its really no big deal.

Screenshot of the splash screen:

Okay as you can see its quite a basic layout. This is a beta or whatever but its still very basic. As a matter of fact, what you can see there, is all that you can do on the application. I started wondering why I had bothered to download and install it.

The thing about this application is that your supposed to be able to share pictures with people. I remember trying out Google’s Pisca a few years ago that did something very similar. As a matter of fact it was prettey much the same if not better.

I tried out putting my pictures into the ‘lists’ category thing. You can add pictures to an album like thing and then view them as a slideshow. Apparently you can share them with your friends too.

Thats it. Thats a full overview of MS Max. As a matter of fact, it was probably a waste of my time even writing the review in the first place. Highly unrecommended. Maybe I missed some huge feature…I seriously doubt that though. I hate logging in with a .net passport to anywhere – and this is so not worth it. 

Tibault can probably try it out in the future and give a less critical review – till then don’t bother to get this app unless you really want to see the layout which is really nothing amazing.