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Looks cleaner and more sharp, but it still doesn't look clean enough for me to use. (In my opinion, Microsoft can't pull off the transparency; it makes it look even more bloated than it already is.)

Destroyer of Nations; so true. Is this better?

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Destroyer of Nations; so true. Is this better?

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Muuuuuch better! What a difference...it's more compact and warmer. :| :) ...or could the color warmness be due to the wallpaper?

The color scheme and glassiness reminds me of Fantasy Interactive's overall site design.

Why did they change the Power icon? The old one is a standard icon commonly used on hardware too.

funny. the old one was ISO/IEC for "Standby". this new one is the same icon as in Windows Server 2003, which stands for "Hard On/Off Switch".

i guess they're changing the default action from Standby to off... which is weird... cause ATX computers shut down to standby and not hard off.

maaaaybe they should switch back to the old one.

in the screenshots ive seen with the new basic visual theme i've noticed that the folder icons in explorer are now also different, and the blue on the toolbar is toned down

Don't forgot, they also fixed that hideous question mark icon and replaced it with the newer Vista one (the purple circle with the white border) - it looks MUCH more polished and better!

I personally like the new O with the line in it more, its much cleaner. I also like how they changed the color from an ugly orange-ish-brown to red.

The taskbar is kinda blue in the 5456 shot because of the blue-ish background.

I also like how they made things smaller and more compact, being myself; a person who hates seeing things very large for people who can't see well I think they put this at a nice size for people who have good vision. Before everything looks so big that it was like enlarged (this being bad because Microsoft makes icons in non-vector format)

Overall I like it, thought I still am not a fan of the design overall.

AeroDiamond IS, IS, IS, IS, coming!

All those who think they have the 'latest' news, thats its been scraped and what not.

a couple of days ago a MS spokesperson HIGHLY recommended everyone to activate their beta2. he could not give his reasons, he only 'highly' recommended it. and we found out why too. those who activated their beta2 copy will get RC1.

now, i can only tell you that AeroDiamond IS coming.

Ah huh...and your source is?..... Let me guess a friend that works at Microsoft, right?

a couple of days ago a MS spokesperson HIGHLY recommended everyone to activate their beta2. he could not give his reasons, he only 'highly' recommended it. and we found out why too. those who activated their beta2 copy will get RC1.

You know, I really fail to see that just because a MS Spokesperson said that people needed to activate their copies of Beta 2 to get RC1, that that means a new interface is coming. In fact, I never even heard that this ms spokesperson was being so secretive about it, the first I heard about it (in the Vista newsgroups) clearly stated that you needed to do so to get RC1, and I havn't read anything to the contrary until your post. And as far as Aero Diamond, it apparently "never made it off the drawing board". I don't know where you're getting your information, but I'm not saying I don't believe you either. I'm just saying, from everything so far, it looks like AD and VG have been dropped (which doesn't mean that can't change...remember watercolor and luna?)

Edit: Also, there was a post by Kam VedBrat, from the WPF team, who says that Vector Glass will not be in Vista. Now, my understanding is that vector glass would have used wpf (and Kam says that), and Aero Diamond was going to use wpf (possible rumour? it was still going to be vector, though, which I would imagine would have to be wpf...). Additionally, diamond was announced for the media center edition of longhorn, but we all know that everything from home premium and up has media center, so that doesn't work out, at least now.

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the new updated NW corner of office is an improvement...but i just dont know. that whole area is so ****** up and out of place i don't know if they can ever make it really pleasing to the eye. whoever thought of the idea should be fired and i think they should just scrap that whole area and redo it from the ground up.

i didn't even know the orb was a button the first time i tried the beta...although the glow on hover helps that somewhat

I've gotta say something, the office icons are nice, but the program sucks as of this point. (Office 2007) As in I mean that all it is about looks, everything is changed and its not user friendly. Thats my opinion on Office 2007 at this point, (althought it is in early beta, right?)

Icons are nice though.

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