From Microsoft-Watch: "While Microsoft has been touting the Aero Glass interface as one of the main selling points for Windows Vista, there will be another new interface one for users running Vista on less-powerful systems too. Microsoft hasn't said much about its final plans for that interface until now. Microsoft has posted some screen shots of the non-Glass theme for Vista, which officials are currently calling the Standard or Basic theme. Vista experts have plenty to say about the Basic theme."
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Member since:2005-07-09
> If Aero Glass is one of the main selling points of
> Vista then thats rather sad.
What is rather sad for Microsoft is that they've trained their customers to think that all innovations are GUI innovations. From what I seen, Vista's key selling point for businesses and home users would be the push to finally try running programs with the least user privileges. If they get this right (and don't let the "integrated DRM" misfeature turn your PC into a nightmare and don't let the basic requirements get too high) they'll have a winner, since it's one of the best ways to get rid of the damage spyware and viruses can cause. From the reviews I've seen of it a few months back, they're not having much luck with it -- there were too many popups for too many obscure context sensitive errors. If you have too many popups, people just click yes to everything just to get rid of them, making your system less secure than with before. But it's a start and they still have some time to work out the kinks.
But regardless, it's good that Microsoft is at least *trying* to catch up with Linux (and supposedly the Mac) on security. It's sad to think that an entire population thinks that spyware and viruses are an unavoidable part of computer life.
Member since:2006-01-16
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2005-11-12
But this should have been finalized agers ago, no wonder Vista has took so long.
If Aero Glass is one of the main selling points of Vista then thats rather sad.