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20070210 Saturday February 10, 2007
Windows Vista 3D Desktop

This is funny, especially when you read people's comments such as: "AWESOME! MICROSOFT RULES!" and "AMAZING!... Can't wait till vista."  Someone posted this Video on YouTube last year as an example of Windows Vista 3D features, and labeled is as an internal review of Vista.  Check it out:

 

Not exactly Windows Vista.  It's actually Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz FOUR years ago when he was running the Sun Software Group showing Project Looking Glass, a 3D Java desktop running on Linux that was developed in the Sun Microsystems Laboratories.  I'm glad that the Microsoft crowd is getting a rise out of a four year old technology from Sun thinking it's Vista.  Keep on innovating, Microsoft!  Then there is this video showing a really cool 3D Linux desktop:


 

Really cool.  Now compare this to the rather dull Windows Vista 3D features. Windows Vista doesn't really offer a 3D desktop, but they allow you to view some windows in a 3D mode. After 7 years in development and $6,000,000,000 in R&D this is what you get:

 

 

Since I'm blogging on Vista, I'll add this clip showing a New York Times journalist comparing Windows Vista with Mac OS X. As you can tell Microsoft didn't steal anything from Apple. 

 

 


posted by kt Feb 10 2007, 02:55:00 PM PST Permalink Comments [2]