It's true... because Verge3 seems to be about the only thing with music and graphics that I can run correctly on my testing computer that has the new Windows Vista build on it. But that counts for something, doesn't it?

And yes... that's out of the box. I did have to change the sound device parameter in the sully chronicles verge.cfg file to '1' though to get sound working. Small price to pay!

I'd post screenshots, but I have yet to get a decent screenshot program installed yet.

prntscrn ftw

Wow. Vistas looks... Exactly like Windows Xp, with some Mac OS touches added to unsubtly hide the fact that it appears Microsoft have been doing bugger all to Windows for the past 5 years. When will they stop following trends and start *starting* some, eh?

V3, a fine example of something that actually does get better and more feature-packed as the years roll by, is joyfully still compatible with the next iteration of the world's foremost purveyor of electronic grief. Yay.

From what I've been able to tell from running it though, it's not just Windows XP with a pretty interface (that's Aero Glass I'm running on it). There's thousands of little things that have been changed that are possibly noticable right away, such as the ability to make virtual folders from desktop search queries, to the fact that IPv6 is not only completely functional, but is actually the DEFAULT protocol for doing anything (although IPv4 is still implemented via some fancy-schmancy dual-layered thingamabob...). There's other strange improvements too... Windows can now use any memory in a USB flashdrive to make paging commonly-used memory way faster (paging to flash is about 10-15 times faster on average than paging to harddrive), and setting that up is like... a 2 click process. Administrator is no longer the default login, just like almost every OTHER OS has been doing for a while... this makes things alot more secure, in theory, although I wonder if the average windows user will be able to put up with the 'This action require administrator priviledges' dialog that comes up... file indexing has changed drastically both in speed and the amount of data that is indexed, putting it right up there with google desktop or Finder (although if I decided I'm not interested in the integrated features that provides, such as virtual folders, I might actually use google desktop instead).

Oh yeah, and when you press windows-tab, it does this cool zoomy thing where all the windows tilt 45 degrees sideways and you can cycle through them with your mousewheel. It's actually pretty functional.

Despite it being kinda the cool thing lately to just assume Vista is going to be Windows XP with a purty new interface (and it is pretty, and responsive, at least in the newest beta), most of subsystems are quite different under the hood. Alot of the new UI work isn't just to make it prettier either, and will be available with any of the themes - a great many things have been shuffled around, mainly with a focus on putting them in places that actually make sense now.

I'm kind of a fan of using different tools in for the tasks they are designed for.... which is why I run my server applications on Linux, and use Windows for application and web development. I can't help it if I get excited when someone makes a better tool. ;D

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Rock on simple UI! W00t11!1!!