Vista RC1 Options

[impala454]

Just installed this tonight, pretty sweet... the flip3d task switching is freakin tight as hell. last time I installed it was beta 1, and this version seems way more polished.

also didn't realize they have their own new document format... "xps" (similiar to pdf). don't know much about it, but they have a 300 page document full of color photos & tables and the entire document is like 12 MB

[impala454]

Again, for someone who hasn't used OS X, you seem to make a lot of assumptions with a simple screenshot.

so... when i sit down at a mac, it doesn't look like the one in the screenshot?

you're saying stuff like "well the animations are the same, blah blah", but how the hell else do you animate a window coming up onto the screen? what were you expecting in vista? an animated dog to run up and take a shit on the screen to make the window come back up?

there's also a lot of very nicely redone interfaces in there. there's an interface that lets you see your running process, it organizes them by company, shows both the task and associated process id(s), whether they make any outside connections, etc. there's also a similiar interface for any open/waiting/etc connections and all associated info (local IP, remote IP, protocol, etc), which also links to/from the process interface. the flip3d shit is really cool too.

as for the sidebar thing w/the clock, i actually left it up there and removed the clock from my taskbar. i don't know if i'll keep the sidebar thing but i stuck a calendar & weather "gadget" in there for now to mess with it. there's some ms document i was going through with all the specific changes between xp & vista. i'll pick some stuff out of it and take some more screenshots at home.