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For six years, the Internet Nexus served as my technology blog, but I've since started blogging at the SuperSite Blog instead. If you're looking for the blog, please head there. --Paul

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

A View on Vista

Binary Bonsai offers a lightweight and cursory overview of why he doesn't like Vista, and he has the balls to rip off my screenshots, describe them as being "supplied" by me (as if worked together on this project), and then spells my name wrong. Grr.

To address his concerns:

1. Apple figured out translucency over four OS X releases. Give Microsoft a few years to go through the same learning curve.

2. People Near Me is not Bonjour, sorry. It's about setting up ad-hoc wireless meetings without a nearby wireless network, using just the wireless cards in your laptops.

3. WMP 11's visual display is far nicer than anything in iTunes' dBASE III-era UI.

4. The new Start Menu is far more usable than that of XP, sorry. And if you want, you can configure it to your heart's content.

5. Flip3D is absolutely not an Expose rip-off. Flip3D and Expose do two completely different things. If anything, Flip3D is far more limited. It's just a more graphical way of switching apps (used to be ALT-TAB). That's it. Nothing more.

6. Oh, and you ripped off my screenshots and had the gall to add them to your Flickr site. Please remove them, thanks. --Paul

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