Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 12th Sep 2005 14:08 UTC
At Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, Microsoft is planning to provide programmers with the code for an early version of Vista, as well as Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005, both of which will be released in November. Vista, the client version of the next release of Windows developed under the code name Longhorn, is expected to be released next year. Screenshots of the PDC Vista build can be found here.
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Member since:2005-07-06
SHADERS, not shadows. Shadows require per-pixel transparency, but no effects.
Vista uses shaders to do special effects like the frost-glass effect on windows. Not only is it per-pixel transparency, but you can essentially apply filters like you would in photoshop: glass, blur, etc.
Can Linux and OSx do that? Nope.
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Yes, it is possible to get shadows and real transparancy in Linux. However, it will require a lot from your graphics card, just like I expect it will in Vista. This is probably why it is not enabled by default in most Linux distros.