500 Hour Test of Tomorrow's Windows "Vista .. @ .. TomsHardware.com

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Quote .. One major development is clear right from the outset: a complete blurring of the boundaries between online services and normal software. Microsoft wants, above all, to take those few experienced users by the hand and simplify their interaction with this new operating system. Colored interface buttons, transparent window effects and a modern design show strong influences from both the Mac OS and Linux. Nevertheless, Microsoft's credo appears to be along the lines of "evolution, not revolution" - don't expect a milestone like the transition from Windows 3.11 to Windows 95 here.

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they kinda broke me of having expectations years ago .. anymore, I don't expect the food to be hot in a restaurant.


... discuss .. ;o)

(*buy a MAC .. or .. get the latest linux distro of YABLONSKI .. are NOT discussion worthy*) ... nintendo, maybe

Does installing Linux or OSX on a Sony PS3 beat a Nintendo ;-)

As for Vista, I think the evolution instead of revolution will be a huge let down to consumers mainly because of the inordinately long time it has taken to come to market and that, to a certain extent it will be tarnished by some of it predecessors foibles I guess. Is there even a launch date yet for the consumer version? I know the Pro version is supposed to be out in November albeit in an incomplete incarnation but last I heard, the consumer version had been pushed deep into 2007 along with the next release of Office.

It takes them a year to fix the release candidate .. so let 'em test it on the professionals for a change

XP brought some good features .. (better memory mangagement .. etc) .. I haven't read the review page for page but it looks like feature bloat at first glance

It sounds like a good plan but it would be a brave IT tekky who switched his companies systems to a new and incomplete OS. Unless he didnt like his job that is :-)

Vista is actually what XP was suppossed to be. Microsoft has finally gotten to the stage where they are at least trying to give their consumers what they want, and doing that while putting the needed security features into it.

Quite an interesting thing is the amount of things MS "borrowed" from their competitors. IE 7's tabbed browsing (copycat of Firefox) being a prime example.

copied from firefox? tabbed browsing first appeared in Netcaptor in 1997, it next appeared as a module for Mozilla called Multizilla and then began to appear in other browsers a few years down the line including Safari, Opera and, of course, Firefox ;-)

the tabbed browsing has now appeared in (the frankly awful) IE7 as Microsoft have entrusted a lot of the look of Vista to Apple tekkie bods.....

*twiddles*

*indicates that I use Firefox and Opera*

The mac version of IE was the only decent version anyway. Microsoft is lame. Macs or Linux should be the platform of choice.

See original post *buy a MAC .. or .. get the latest linux distro of YABLONSKI .. are NOT discussion worthy* caveat....

The point I was trying to make, was that Firefox is the browser that made tabbed browsing popular. Aside from IE, Firefox is the second most used browser... I did know that Firefox also borrowed the tabbed browsing idea! ;)