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> "To many, Vista was 99% visual changes and 1% detrimental functional changes. But at least it brought the unwashed masses a calc.exe that had shaded buttons a
by aneesh 18y ago
> "To many, Vista was 99% visual changes and 1% detrimental functional changes. But at least it brought the unwashed masses a calc.exe that had shaded buttons and a translucent title bar!
Conversely, a lot of the excitement about Windows 7, relative to Vista, is that it fixes stuff "under the hood" (better, strong, faster.)"
In reality, it's almost completely the opposite. Vista had a lot of under-the-hood tweaks. I've installed the Win7 beta, and most of the noticeable changes are in the interface.
- potatolicious 18y agoTo me, Vista was about visual changes that didn't matter, and visual non-changes where they should have been changed. What's under the hood did not affect most users. The login screen was improved, but the XP one wasn't bad either. But for some reason those god-awful balloon popup notifications were not scrapped like they should have been ages ago. Your system tray will constantly plead for attention for the most inane, least interesting news, like a puppy wanting attention. Great, thanks. Fix what ain't broke and don't fix what is.