In the flurry of Microsoft Windows Vista related coverage that has erupted with the release to manufacture I found these posts from Ed Bott useful summaries:
Will Windows Vista be worth the wait? by ZDNet's Ed Bott -- It's been a long and winding road, but Windows Vista is finally released to manufacturing. You'll no doubt be overwhelmed with coverage of the minutiae of Windows Vista in the next few days and weeks, but focusing on the road behind or on pixel-by-pixel inspections is a waste of time. After nearly a year of working with Windows Vista day in and day out in production environments, I've come up with three questions that every Windows user needs to ask about Windows Vista…
Vista Mythbusters by ZDNet's Ed Bott -- I'm continually amazed at just how much misinformation is out there when it comes to Windows Vista. Between Microsoft's confusing messages and a committed anti-Microsoft crowd, how do you get the facts? Start here..
If you, like me, are baffled by talk of “Aero, Glass, Basic & Classic” Long Zheng has a brilliant post that demonstrates the different user interface modes:
Windows Vista: The “choose your own adventure” UI at istartedsomething
Some of you may, and some of you may not, (so that’s everybody) know Windows Vista has 4 tiers of user interface experience, from the best to worst: Aero Glass, Vista Standard, Vista Basic and Windows Classic. So why so many? Who knows, graphics designers unemployment at an all time low in Redmond? But regardless of whether you like it or not, these are the choices that will be shipping with Vista so let’s understand it while we can.
I haven't tried Vista yet & not sure I’ll bother on this machine. I guess my next PC will have it…
