Windows Vista AERO graphics, I just couldn't resist!

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Not long ago I installed a copy of the Windows Vista Feb CTP sadly though, my graphics card was not good enough to show the aero graphics, I’ve been enjoying using Vista a lot lately and just couldnt resist not having the AERO graphics, so I went and got myself a nice new card, and finally, I can now see the AERO UI, very very nice! You can even choose your favourite color theme, adjust the intensity, enable or disable the transparent glass …etc Very cool. Here’s a screenshot illustration……

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Windows Vista: First Impressions

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I’ve been using Windows Vista for a few days and here are some first thoughtsI like the new interface a lot. The L&F is very nice (tho no aero for me). – The way things work now makes it a lot easier to do things. – If the changes on how you get things done are confusing, you can switch to classic view in some things such as the ‘control panel’. I was looking for something in the Vista view that at first was unable to find, then I found the option to switch to ‘classic view’ – Nice! It’…

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History of the Start button

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With the latest release of the Windows Vista CTP build this week. I was doing some recap with some of the changes made in the history of windows and one of the things that I didnt pay much attention to lately is the Windows ‘start’ button. Most of you will probably know that the start button was a big talk within HCI for it’s inconsistency with user actions – clicking a button called start to shut down – end – a computer … etc. With a bit of search I found the following linkwith all the windows buttons from Windows 95 to…

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Longhorn becomes Vista

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The next version of Microsoft Windows, which was formerly known as Windows Longhorn will be arriving in the second half on 2006 under the name Windows Vista. See details hereand press pass here Personally I like the new name more, I am yet to make sense of it though……

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