Windows Vista AND LUNA!

not to be mean or rude or anything but....why?

The Start Panel is interesting.  It is fully drawn with the Luna style, except for some of the new Vista elemkents.   Neat

hahahahahahahahaha

I know thats just what *I* was waiting for!

Looks "great"

Could be worse. You could have made it look like OS X. What Vista needs is some circa 2001 glassy effects and icons that look like they came in a bag of candy... right? Sadly, that's probably what we we seem to be in for.

Sorry to be a pooper, but I'd have much preferred a new file system to desktop glam. They should just open the hooks to companies like Stardock and let them worry about aesthetics, and give people what they need, the most innovation and stability in the USE of their computer as humanly possible. Microsoft's s.o.p. seems to have become trickling out innovation so slowly that new OS versions don't have to compete with the innovation of the previous ones.

Sorry, sorry, /rant off. It's just that this screenshot struck an ironic chord with me. I think that the screenshot here is a bit more honest than MS is.

How about this Bakerstreet:

lol, woot!

This is confusing! You can make XP look like Vista and make Vista like XP! If were to choose from those I would pick XP looking like Vista.

Hmm, that Solitaire would look hot on OS X.

Come on, you need the last on: Win 3.1. Come on. It's a real classic.

*PurrBall is embarrased to admit he still uses that theme sometimes.

Hmm, that Solitaire would look hot on OS X.

Maybe so, but me thinks it looks just fine on my PC with Vista decked out with a nice DesktopX theme and matching Objectdock to launch it from....oh, and CursorXP themed pointers to select cards, etc. Yep, they all work on Vista RC1 just fine, as does Winstep Xtreme.

Oh the possibilities are simply amazing....roll on VistaBlinds, Vista IP and all the other Stardock goodies.

Me likes the Vista cursors.

Brad, I would like to see what an explorer window would look like in that skin.

salam be hame rahrovaneh haghighat

This is quite scary...I can't wait until WBVista comes out so I can be rid of this boring UI...I guess I got bored of Aero when I had XP...Oh well.

well, interesting... but just makes me saad to think that this will confirm many peoples thoughts regarding Vista, that it is just XP with glass. (not my op by the way!)

Is this done by just changing the classic style or can this util the glass too?

The horror... the horror...

What I wanna is why they still got Paint in there?! Nobody uses that POS, just get rid of it and spare everyone the misery. And while at it they should get rid of Notepad too.

No one uses paint and notepad?

LOL, maybe not everyone has your leet warez connections. I use notepad quite often, and lots of people use paint. The problem with Windows isn't simple tools for simple jobs, quite the opposite. The problem with Windows is MS thinking the OS has to replace every app you go to the store and buy until it is a bloated monstrosity, with only passing consideration to the quality of the core OS itself.

So when someone *cough* like you says there is no point in notepad, I have to wonder what you are proposing. Using a bloated word processing app to read flat text files? A $600 Adobe app to print a "wet floor" sign? Logical? No, wait, the word I wanted was "predictable"...

What I wanna [know] is why they still got Paint in there?! Nobody uses that POS, just get rid of it and spare everyone the misery. And while at it they should get rid of Notepad too.

I use paint.net and PFE/OE for advanced tasks. But notepad and paint load fast and get most simple jobs done.

The other thing is . .If you are MS and you bundle a better app . .. you are in jeopardy of monopoly (again).

heh, I tend to think the Internet would be a whole lot better if people DID use paint and notepad a bit more often. Uber tools in the hands of the unwashed doesn't make life better for everyone, and in terms of web development they make a lot of headaches...

not to be mean or rude or anything but....why?

The 'ethos' of the skinner.....

......"because you CAN" ....