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Neowin.net is a technology news website that focuses primarily on Windows and PCs; however, Mac and Linux are also topics that are actively discussed. Neowin runs under the slogan, "Where unprofessional journalism looks better."
Neowin contains three distinct news sections, each having its own default color scheme:
- Main (Blue) - general news, featuring articles about various tech-related subjects.
- Software (Green) - features mostly Windows software, including updates and beta releases.
- Gamers (Gray) - news about both PC and console gaming.
(Neowin members have the ability to change these color schemes ad libitum.)
Neowin was started as a hobby in October 1998 by Marcel Klum and Steven Parker, known on its forums as "Redmak" and "Neobond" respectively. One of Neowin's claims to fame is being the subject of the most viewed story on Slashdot ever.
Neowin is considered one of the representative greaters of the growth and the concentration of enthusiastic users and of the Microsoft Windows system and the Longhorn-waiting era: subject of this future operating system it's debated exhaustingly every day, motivating people to imitate appearance of this beta system GUI, and creating hyppe of "the most waited software of all the time".
Neowin Forums
Powered by Invision Power Board forum software, Neowin has an active technology forum consisting of 121,170 registered users (November 8, 2005) and more than 5 million posts. At its peak (October 14, 2005 at 2:50 AM PDT), Neowin had as many as 3,048 users online simultaneously.
One area in which Neowin trancends the usual web forum orthodoxy is its large moderation team. As such, its forums are generally considered "safe" for all manner of topics. While the primary focus is generally percieved as being Microsoft and Windows-centric, it has a large community in a number of sub-forums for other discussion, including, but not limited to:
- Latest electronic technology: devices, gadgets, and other hardware.
- Customization and tweaking of Windows, Mac, and Linux systems.
- Console and PC gaming.
- Discussion of real world issues (politics, religion, philosophy).
- Hardware related topics, such as overclocking.
- Internet and Web Browser discussion, such as Opera and Mozilla Firefox.
- Linux and Mac technology discussion (even though the website's name suggests a focus on Microsoft related news)
Skinning Scene
Neowin is known by concentrating a great number of adepts and authors of Windows XP themes and skinning Windows programs. Many discover the site when they want to go deep in this subject. It's there also that projects had been born as LClock, Desktop Sidebar and Longhorn Transformation Pack.
External links
- Neowin.net main website
- Neowin.net forums
- Interview with founders of Neowin
- #neowin IRC channel
- Neowin graphics work request system