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The Icon Bar: The Playpen: Windows Vista
 
  Windows Vista
  andypoole (09:21 15/6/2006)
  Phlamethrower (11:02 15/6/2006)
    monkeyson2 (11:09 15/6/2006)
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Andrew Poole Message #76551, posted by andypoole at 09:21, 15/6/2006
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Interestingly, it's not as bad as I thought it would be :o

the TabletPC stuff has improved too!

*goes to fiddle with it some more...*
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Jeffrey Lee Message #76555, posted by Phlamethrower at 11:02, 15/6/2006, in reply to message #76551
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Interestingly, it's not as bad as I thought it would be :o
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
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Phil Mellor Message #76556, posted by monkeyson2 at 11:09, 15/6/2006, in reply to message #76555
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Interestingly, it's not as bad as I thought it would be :o
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Maybe he thinks it's worse ;)

I can't say I was impressed by it. I've just seen most of it done better elsewhere.

I dislike it because of its high hardware requirements. The last thing we need now is for everyone to throw out perfectly decent computers and buy even more energy inefficient ones.
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Jeffrey Lee Message #76558, posted by Phlamethrower at 11:33, 15/6/2006, in reply to message #76556
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I can't say I was impressed by it. I've just seen most of it done better elsewhere.

I dislike it because of its high hardware requirements. The last thing we need now is for everyone to throw out perfectly decent computers and buy even more energy inefficient ones.
Was that a statement about ARM computers being better than x86? :o
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Jeffrey Lee Message #76559, posted by Phlamethrower at 11:34, 15/6/2006, in reply to message #76558
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The government should reintroduce Window tax. Except, well, I'm sure you can see where I'm going with this.
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Andrew Poole Message #76563, posted by andypoole at 12:09, 15/6/2006, in reply to message #76555
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Interestingly, it's not as bad as I thought it would be :o
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Don't get me wrong, it's still not right, but it doesn't feel as bad as I thought it would. It feels like XP with some OS X stuff slapped on top, with bigger icons and more eye candy.

It still feels like windows, which is bad.

And, to make things worse, it still has the windows xp startup sound :|
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Simon Challands Message #76565, posted by SimonC at 12:25, 15/6/2006, in reply to message #76563
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It doesn't have to be good or bad, it'll still make MS another fortune and get bundled onto nearly all new computers, so it'll get bought without anyone much thinking about it.
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Andrew Poole Message #76566, posted by andypoole at 12:33, 15/6/2006, in reply to message #76565
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Oh, and it still amuses me that the first message bubble thing that appears after the install finishes says:

Your computer might be at risk.
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Jeffrey Lee Message #76567, posted by Phlamethrower at 13:08, 15/6/2006, in reply to message #76566
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Oh, and it still amuses me that the first message bubble thing that appears after the install finishes says:

Your computer might be at risk.
:E
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Andrew Poole Message #76579, posted by andypoole at 16:11, 15/6/2006, in reply to message #76567
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http://andrewpoole.blogspot.com/2006/06/windows-vista-beta-2-overall-not-very.html
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Phil Mellor Message #76580, posted by monkeyson2 at 16:13, 15/6/2006, in reply to message #76579
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If you want to recreate IE7's zoom function in IE6, paste this into the URL bar: javascript:(function(){document.body.style.zoom="200%";}())
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Andrew Poole Message #76581, posted by andypoole at 16:27, 15/6/2006, in reply to message #76580
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If you want to recreate IE7's zoom function in IE6, paste this into the URL bar: javascript:(function(){document.body.style.zoom="200%";}())
:o
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Phil Mellor Message #76582, posted by monkeyson2 at 16:29, 15/6/2006, in reply to message #76581
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If you want to recreate IE7's zoom function in IE6, paste this into the URL bar: javascript:(function(){document.body.style.zoom="200%";}())
:o
It doesn't work properly, though :(
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Jeffrey Lee Message #76584, posted by Phlamethrower at 16:36, 15/6/2006, in reply to message #76582
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Maybe because there's a smiley in the middle of it? :P
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Jeffrey Lee Message #76585, posted by Phlamethrower at 16:36, 15/6/2006, in reply to message #76582
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If you want to recreate IE7's zoom function in IE6, paste this into the URL bar: javascript:(function(){document.body.style.zoom="200%";}())
:o
It doesn't work properly, though :(
So, it works exactly like IE7 then?
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Jeffrey Lee Message #76586, posted by Phlamethrower at 16:36, 15/6/2006, in reply to message #76585
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Oh, the fun that could be had with that sentence! :P
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