   Tom's Hardware Windows Vista screenshots
  Slashdot posted an article with a link to a Tom's Hardware "review" of Windows Vista. It's mainly a bunch of screenshots and not much content. Quite interesting if you want a visual summary of Vista.BTW there are screenshots of classic mode, so good news for those who dislike Aero.   
Is "Live" next ".NET" word?;  That interface is so unbelievably ugly. The dialog boxes literally make me want to throw up. I am officially no longer concerned about Vista.   ;  At work we're trying out a beta version of Vista. There's quite a few changes, and I think a lot of them were made just to make changes.   ;Quote:Original post by SalsaThat interface is so unbelievably ugly. The dialog boxes literally make me want to throw up. I am officially no longer concerned about Vista.We all said that for the Windows XP interface.  The biggest issue I have with it is the hiding of the File menu (notably in IE7 and Office Beta 2).   ;Quote:Original post by Rob LoachThe biggest issue I have with it is the hiding of the File menu (notably in IE7 and Office Beta 2).I've actually gotten used to not having the File menu in IE7. Everything I really ever used it for is still available via the Page button.   ;  The XP interface is still ugly, but in a Fisher Price way. Besides, I use the classic theme - which Vista seems to have royally screwed up. The biggest issue I have with the revamped UI is the nasty blend of Win3.1's flat-dialog-boxes with the rainbow-candy/sewage colors of XP prevalent here. That, and the sheer lack of any sort of consistant aesthetic theme.This view of the classic theme is probably the worst offender of them all. Haphazardly slapping together crayola buttons on a bland gray interface with no sense of composition or dynamics. All of those closely packed beveled line dividers really make me want to explode.Blegh!;Quote:Original post by Rob LoachQuote:Original post by SalsaThat interface is so unbelievably ugly. The dialog boxes literally make me want to throw up. I am officially no longer concerned about Vista.We all said that for the Windows XP interface.  The biggest issue I have with it is the hiding of the File menu (notably in IE7 and Office Beta 2).and some of us still say that about XP - the first thing I do on a fresh windows xp install is set it to "windows classic"Granted, I like the vista "aero" better than the XP theme. If Vista comes out on MSDNAA, then I'll download it. Otherwise...nope, not for me.   ;  The thing is, MS are probably not deeloping Vista for people like us - the relevant question is maybe: if you were a computer moron would this be easier or harder than XP to use?   ;  I'm one of those XP users who immediately switches to the classic theme, but I've been using Vista for the last month and find the Aero theme decent. The 3D-accelerated GUI also feels smoother than classic.   