The Daily Bits

Today is a day that I thought would never come. Even last week it was sorta surreal, sitting eating lunch seeing Windows Vista advertised in the Future Shop and Best Buy fliers. Today Windows Vista was released after 5 years of work on it. I’m not running it as of right now, although I should take another look at it. It’s everywhere, from the tech communities such as digg all the way to Global National news in Canada. Local news reports state that upwards of 80 people were waiting at a Best Buy store before they opened today to get their copy of Windows Vista.

Some people say that the majority of features were copied by Apple’s OS X. That is the truth, it does give a fresh new feeling, several other applications have been added that are apple like. Some of these applications are the ‘gadgets’ and sidebar, beautiful windows effects and 3D transitions, and most notably the live search feature in the start menu (Can I call it this anymore?).

I will be taking another look at it, I just hope that there are no immediate security concerns. One more thing that made me feel better about it was clarification that only applications that require strong DRM will be effected if you don’t have the right equipment. Basically the entire system won’t be effected if you don’t have the right monitor or DVD player while trying to play a high-definition DVD format.

Has the ‘Wow’ started for you?

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