A Mac Fan's Take On Vista

jcatcw writes "Ken Mingis has been running Vista on a MacBook Pro for a couple of weeks. Highlights from his review: 'Apple's UI is called Aqua. Microsoft calls its interface Aero. Hmmmm... Gadgets and widgets. What's that line about imitation being the sincerest form of flattery?... The UAC implementation in Vista is heavy-handed and intrusive — it halts what you're doing, even if you want to do something as simple as change your clock. My sense here is that Microsoft has been criticized so often for security vulnerabilities that it decided to club users over the head with its new operating system-in-lockdown-mode... I'm more enamored of Vista's Flip 3D feature, which basically takes all of the open windows on your desktop, stands them up on end and stacks them in a way that you can cycle through to the one you want to use. It's similar to what Apple's Expose does... Vista's method wins on aesthetics.'"

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Re:Painfully Subjective Review

[CheShACat]

Well.. it IS a Mac user's take ,':-|

the real deal killer.

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The new gui is just a fraction of what Vista offers and i'm amazed at home many people praise it or detest it based on that single aspect alone.

The interface is usually the best M$ has to offer. Everything else is starved for effort. If the interface sucks you can only imagine what a train wreck the rest is. No, you don't have to imagine because every review so far has called it just that.

The real feature that should be a deal killer is 3.5, DRM. You may have missed it because it was inappropriately placed under the joke section, "Security".