I heard somewhere that Vista would have translucent windows. Is this true?

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Yes, Google (Aeroglass) for more info. Need a good 3D vid card, and pretty fast CPU.

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Windows XP Powertoys Mozilla Firefox

As I know, Windows 2000, XP and 2003 already support translucent windows! (In Linux, KDE 3.4 does the same) What is this? New translucency? The 2K/XP programmers don't use translucency, but it exists since 2000!

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Nothing new. It's already built into XP, you just need the right 
software to make it work.

Same for many other 'new' vista features. Virtual folders or stacks or whatever they 
call them are just a new coat for an old search function. It's similar to all those 
music cataloging software that reads mp3 tags.
IE7 steals many features from Mozilla (tabs, finally!), the rest of windows copies 
what OS X has been doing 
for quite a while now.

The 'new' User Account Protection feature copies what Linux and Apple have been doing 
for years.

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It just gives the desktop some depth, a 3D look, but I guess Vista has 3 levels depending on how good the hardware is. Right now I find Vista is not very useful beyond maybe Web surfing, it's still Beta, but my first experience has been it is pretty unstable when I do CPU intensive things, and crashes a lot. I wouldn't suggest anyone use it except on a extra computer that has no Data the user is worried about losing.

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Windows XP Powertoys Mozilla Firefox

And except on a Virtual Machine. Unfortunately, my host machine will explode if I try to create a Vista VM (only 256MB physical RAM, but Win98SE*64MB, Win3.11*64MB and WinNT3.1 Workstations*64MB run fine!). And Vista probably will crash with STOP: 0x00D1ED1E INSTALL_MORE MEMORY_OR_DIE during a virtual boot...

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Windows XP Powertoys Mozilla Firefox

Oh no! They're imitating my favorite OS (Linux) and GUI (KDE)! :( And, you're right. Translucency was implemented 1st in Windows 2000. XP has translucency too, but few programs use it (and when it's used, it is annoying!).

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I'm using 2.2 ghz Athlon, 768 ram, but a sucky vid card. So I don't think I'm seeing the full Aeroglass effect if I got the name right, but it still has pretty good look. I'm sure MS will get Vista working, but it will a cpu intensive operating system. It's easy to install. Once the install gets going no need to baby sit the computer. Took about 40 minutes, and even got it networked to my other puters with no hassle by just changing the Work Group Name, and rebooting, and it showed up in the Network.

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Windows XP Powertoys Mozilla Firefox

I only have 4MB Video RAM (integrated Intel graphs controller, a headache for WinXP and Suse Linux) at 24bit "true" color, 256MB RAM (DIMM SDRAM) on 1 of 2 slots, an Intel Celeron 1.3 GHz, USB 1.1, a monitor that doesn't support 1024x768x80+ Hz, and an ambiguous 3D support. WinVista won't reach the setup welcome screen, I think, and I don't want that software (except to laugh at a BSOD or RSOD!).

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Is not the translucent stuff like Windows XP. If you see the screenshots then you see than the transparency is in the borders and the caption, not in all the program


On Thursday, August 18, 2005 at 6:05 pm, The White Cat wrote:
>Windows XP Powertoys
>Mozilla Firefox

>I only have 4MB Video RAM (integrated Intel graphs controller, a headache for WinXP
>and Suse Linux) at 24bit "true" color, 256MB RAM (DIMM SDRAM) on 1 of 2 slots, an
>Intel Celeron 1.3 GHz, USB 1.1, a monitor that doesn't support 1024x768x80+ Hz, and
>an ambiguous 3D support. WinVista won't reach the setup welcome screen, I think,
>and I don't want that software (except to laugh at a BSOD or RSOD!).
>

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