Microsoft reveals Vista UI Guidelines


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Windows Vista is to be a really nice GUI. Do you think it looks nicer then OSX or OSX is still a better looking GUI?

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well the eye candy is very nice and i admit its pretty but its still windows, its still basically the same as 95 in the way it works which means its counter productive. they can make the os holographic for all i care but until an enitre rewrite of the os is done, until they make it so that i get more work done than hastle, then i might. ill say again, its a very pretty looking os but its still basically unchanged in its operation since 95, 98, 2000, xp.

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i know that what i meant is in the way it works. the basic way the os operates in terms of what the user sees is basically the same through out the line.

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pshhhhh.

I want more than eye candy. I want a usable operating system with modern technologies. You will have to do a lot to get me away from mac os x microsoft!

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so the redesigned kernel,

completely done from the ground up TCP/IP stacks,

WinFS (coming later),

GUI off loading to GPU,

new presentation system WinFX,

Avalon,

brand new network model,

.NET 2.0,

new XPS printer format (print to XML print storage like a PDF type thing but clearer and more control over it)

the nwe hardware model

the new UAP model for least priviladges user accounts

parental controls for games and videos that use the ERSB ratings

the new driver set

LDDM drivers

DirectX 10 specifications

the new NTFS imporvements (there are a TON of them)

the new security system

Internet explorer 7 with a way better CSS system

a new movie maker that will allow DVD authoring (Movie Maker 3)

a new media player (MP11)

A new installation system using windows PE

less rebooting needed for updates

supose to be a lot faster then XP by RC0

A new "deep freeze" feature for application freezing in memory

and the list goes on and on.. yeah its just eye candy :rolleyes: those are just the things off the top of my head, there is WAY more then that

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so the redesigned kernel,

completely done from the ground up TCP/IP stacks,

WinFS (coming later),

GUI off loading to GPU,

new presentation system WinFX,

Avalon,

brand new network model,

.NET 2.0,

new XPS printer format (print to XML print storage like a PDF type thing but clearer and more control over it)

the nwe hardware model

the new UAP model for least priviladges user accounts

parental controls for games and videos that use the ERSB ratings

the new driver set

LDDM drivers

DirectX 10 specifications

the new NTFS imporvements (there are a TON of them)

the new security system

Internet explorer 7 with a way better CSS system

a new movie maker that will allow DVD authoring (Movie Maker 3)

a new media player (MP11)

A new installation system using windows PE

less rebooting needed for updates

supose to be a lot faster then XP by RC0

A new "deep freeze" feature for application freezing in memory

and the list goes on and on.. yeah its just eye candy  :rolleyes:  those are just the things off the top of my head, there is WAY more then that

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I'm sorry, but there is a WAY to implement these features. It's all good having these features, but if the way you access them is faulty, then it's of no use. Windows is still windows and it's all similar.. they should completely redesign it. I use windows, but when I use OS X at college (I do very often), it makes me smile randomly. All the eye candy (and there is enough for a lifetime) adds up to make the whole experience worthwhile.

Seeing as there are 2 different types of people - language/arts and mathematicians/scientists. This is reflected in Windows / OS X. The Windows users have the functionality, but none of the style/class. Where as OS X still has the features (because enough nerds code for apple) but in the end, it is designed by artists.

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