Vista Flip 3D

After reading about it, after not being able to run it because of my lack of direct 3D emulation in parallels. After struggling to find it on a regular set up, thinking it was simply a replacement for alt+tab and thinking - yeah so that's the new alt+tab everyone is whaling about ?

I finally got flip-3d activated. I'll tell you it looks cool. It ran pretty snappy even though I only had 128 megs of video ram. Here are a few of my other early Vista RTM shots. Vista out of beta or RC runs noticeably faster, taking out the reporting code has up'd the antee heaps.
I do think that is seriously cool, the independent volumes per application.

Taking only 51 minutes to install with a mere three crashes, two of which during a required reboot anyway - isn't too bad.

Above is the rather natty thumbnail tab minimized affair, cute. A friend of mine was rallying the Windows cry "Guess what you can minimize a video and it keeps playing in the task bar" - Uh huh that's novel. The Widget bar is still annoying taking up valuable real estate full of pretty crappy widgets, gadgets I mean. Completely different, honest.