Eye Candy
A picture truly is worth 1,000 words. These shots of the
Aero interface reveal the building blocks from which
Vista is built30 MA XIMUMPC OCTOBER 2005
Windows
VISTA
Comes Together
The new Games interface will not only automatically keep your
games up to date, it also includes parental controls that are
enforced by the OS. If you don’t want Junior playing GTA , he
won’t even see the directory where it is stored on your system.Kiss your accordion
menus goodbye! The
new Start Menu
shares the area where
your frequently used
programs live with
the contents of your
Program Files directory.
We likee!The new design for
the Control Panel
looks nice and seems
clever, but in practice
it doesn’t work very
well. We’ll stick to
Classic View, thank
you very much.The new Computer window (sans the vestigial “My”)
includes a graphical representation of free space on all
of your drives. The traditional File/Edit/View menus have
also been replaced by a series of graphical menus (in
the purple bar).