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tspeirs:
I'm only interested in Vista from a development standpoint. I'll certainly only use Vista for doing my work and on my cab when and if I am forced to. I could not give a monkeys ass  about the 3D GUI, in fact I even dont like the windows XP Gui, start menu, and all the stuff it does to cater for people who are not skilled. I configure it to the hilt to look and play like Windows 2000 every time I install it. I dont' even want to upgrade from Office 2000.

It's looking like I cant' do that with Vista. So its likely Ill be making apps for Vista, but I doubt Ill be using it at all, until I'm forced. That's a little ironic too :)
youki:
Agree with tspeirs. Same thing for me.

Personnaly, i 'd prefer UI like... DOS!  It is why i do lot of thing using Console under XP.
For instance it is faster for me to type a command line to enter in folder and copy files than browsing my folder with explorers ,select files ,  right click "copy"  go to the other folder  rigth click "paste"..etc..

But i think i too old school...  :)

JoyMonkey:
Anybody seen the previews of the MC360 skin for XBMC 2.0? Apparently it's set to be released on Friday. There's a video preview here:
http://actioncorp.libsyn.com/
and here:
http://blackbolt.xbox-scene.com/?p=skins&cat=mc360

It's based on the Xbox360 dashboard, but with the extra functionalities of XBMC.

In case you haven't guessed, I'm drooling.
Howard_Casto:

--- Quote from: tspeirs on April 05, 2006, 11:10:53 am ---I'm only interested in Vista from a development standpoint. I'll certainly only use Vista for doing my work and on my cab when and if I am forced to. I could not give a monkeys ass  about the 3D GUI, in fact I even dont like the windows XP Gui, start menu, and all the stuff it does to cater for people who are not skilled. I configure it to the hilt to look and play like Windows 2000 every time I install it. I dont' even want to upgrade from Office 2000.

It's looking like I cant' do that with Vista. So its likely Ill be making apps for Vista, but I doubt Ill be using it at all, until I'm forced. That's a little ironic too :)

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Something that vista is doing that I think might prove to be useful is the fact that EVERYTHING is a poly and there are no more sprites, even at the desktop level.  This means we can stretch, distort and "3d effectify" everything.  With this kind of graphics power at the core level, it might be possible to use really simple tools like visual studio to make impressive 3d front-ends. 


But considering vista is so carzy half of the emus won't get ported for at least a year, I'm not in any hurry. 
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