JAC

I remember running the Beta for Windows 95, there was an excitement and buzz because the interface had been so radically overhauled. Vista was meant to be as big a jump as those heady days. Trouble is, from what I can tell from testing out the Beta 2 release, Microsoft have simply brushed up XP to look a bit snazzier which isn't what the industry was hoping for after a 5 year wait, we were hoping for some inovations and instead we got some rehashes of products that are already out for XP. Internet Explorer 7 from Firefox? Dashboard from Konfabulator? Even the snazzy black look can be emulated on Windowsblinds so what really useful interface improvements are there from XP that haven't already been implemented? In my opinion at the moment there just isn't enough to warrant the purchase of some mega machine to run them on.

Sabre has a point however I remember running the Beta for Windows 95, there was an excitement and buzz because the interface had been so radically overhauled. Vista was meant to be as big a jump as those heady days. Trouble is, from what I can tell from testing out the Beta 2 release, Microsoft have simply brushed up XP to look a bit snazzier which isn't what the industry was hoping for after a 5 year wait, we were hoping for some inovations and instead we got some rehashes of products that are already out for XP. Internet Explorer 7 from Firefox? Dashboard from Konfabulator? Even the snazzy black look can be emulated on Windowsblinds so what really useful interface improvements are there from XP that haven't already been implemented? In my opinion at the moment there just isn't enough to warrant the purchase of some mega machine to run them on.