Jensen Harris has put some screenshots online that show us exactly what Glass will look like on Windows Vista and MS Office. Check out these screenshots from Word and from Excel! I think Glass looks really great on Office 2007, just like Brandon I’m very impressed! Go to Jensen’s blog for more info:
We’re still planning on some visual tweaks based on feedback and to optimize for glass, especially in the upper-left corner (or, as we call it internally, the “northwest” corner.) But these won’t debut until after Beta 2 ships, so these pictures are an accurate picture of what Office …read more

Bill had a keynote speach at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. You should check out the video because there is some really neat stuff he’s talking about. Bill shows how the modern office will look like (big screen with three desktops), touchscreens, the connection with your mobile, real-time news, etc. Windows Vista was shown with all new features like task switching, the Aero Glass interface, the sidebar with gadgets, IE7 (thumbnailed tabs and parental controls).
Engadget also has a great summary of Bill’s keynote at the CES, and be sure to check out this article at yahoo.com (via …read more

How the Aero Glass 3D feature will look in high-end versions of Windows Vista. Hardware requirements for this effect are disputed because not all work on the display facility has been completed. However, a Microsoft strategist in Australia has said: “Vista will work best on a video card with more than 256MB RAM, 2GB of DDR3 fast memory and a S-ATA 2 hard drive.”

Microsoft is getting round the massive hardware resources needed to fully implement the Windows Vista vision by reducing the features in the more basic of its seven projected “editions”.
According to Softpedia, the Starter and Home Basic editions won’t have the much-lauded Aero Glass graphics feature. They will present a “Classic” GUI similar to XP. “Other graphics features, such as tab previews or taskbar preview, will be excluded as well, because they would require too many resources.”
Moreover : “The new version of Microsoft Windows Web Server will only be included in the business type versions, which will also include unique …read more