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Vista is coming. To us developers Vista is about new API's, to users Vista is about a new UI. As a developer you have to take a good look at that as well; that's how people will (want to) work with the software you make. The feel of Vista is different; I could try to list all the small and bigger differences but to get a feel yourself there is no other way than work with it yourself. The latest CTP is stable and does not require any hyper hardware as long as you don't install it in a virtual PC. Back to multi-boot. To get a full immersion I recently installed it on my tablet PC.
According to the screen saver it is Windows Tablet PC edition
<Update> Build 5230 in my original post. Typo. Thanks Sander </update>
It is not the real beta2 yet. As I understand matters there will not be a distinct release labeled beta 2, but several CTP's instead. Working with build 5270 is a real pleasure. Build 5219 turned blue once in a while but this one keeps on running and running. And it's running well. Despite my machine's good but not great hardware specs (1Ghz Pentium mobile and 512 Mb RAM) it's smooth (smoother than XP tablet PC ed !) and very very usable. The tablet functionality is now fully integrated in the OS. Peter Wright has written some very good posts describing that.
My personal favorite Vista feature is the magnifying glass. Here it is in full action
It highlights another very specific feature of Vista which Frans will like. The date's description is no Dutch, not even double Dutch. New amongst the languages supported is Frysk. Which is one of the many dialects spoken in the Netherlands and the only one which made it getting a special status. In the province of Friesland official documents are bilingual, in Dutch and Frysk. To spell it correctly you need letters not part of the standard Dutch character set. The official name of the province is Fryslân. To type that you needed a French codepage or an international keyboard with dead keys. Vista has FY, the Frisian keyboard layout. An a circumflex (â) cannot be part of a domain name, which at the time led to some insulted Frisians. For them it is a serious matter, to the others in the country it is somewhat a source of amusement. Personally I would like Grunnegs added :)
Developing software for Vista is going to be a different ballgame. VS 2005 installs and works well on Vista but doesn't open the Vista api's yet. New is the Orcas CTP, which is actually just a new name for the WinFx CTP's. Vista is the platform on which WPF (the presentation part of winfx) will really shine. Orcas will install on XP and server 2003 as long as you also install the WinFx runtime on the machine. But I'm going for Vista. New OS, new UI, new languages, new stuff to play with. With VS 2005 up and running I need a future focus; learning just never stops.
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