Vista looks so beautiful

Hmm, maybe you will be very unfamiliar with Vista. In fact when I see this for the first time, I just wonder what it is; even I can not make sure that it is software.

OK. Let change to its former name: Longhorn. Yeah, you get it. It is the next generation of the Windows family in our PC. Microsoft told us that Longhorn will be a great new one when comparing it to the old Windows version. This lets me remember the feeling of upgrading win98 to win2000 — great change!

Longhorn, now called Vista, does not change just its name. Microsoft is a great software company for sure (maybe IBM’s software department is larger, while it’s much more far away from us), but it still can not reach the aim which Bill Gates said several years ago for the forecast of Longhorn. For example Microsoft planned to use a new file system called WinFS. The core of WinFS is to use database technique to save files. It could make the visiting and searching of files more quickly. But before the alpha test of Vista, Microsoft finally announced to give up the WinFS in this version. Maybe later, maybe never, who knows.

Today Microsoft starts the public beta test. Thanks internet and BT, within 12 hours we got the copy of this beta version. The requirements is not very high (of course my old laptop can not run it smoothly, I even have no plan to install Vista on it) for the PCs sold today.

Someone has successfully installed it and made some screen capture pictures. No other words but beautiful can describe it. Many people said it looks like KDE of Linux, while others think it is another copy ware of Mac. Who cares that? Common users just see it is the most beautiful system they have even seen.

Here are some pictures. Enjoy!