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See Windows Vista demo site
Microsoft has a marketing site up called See Windows Vista, where Tom Skerrit invites you click on links to view videos describing the virtues of Vista. Although the site is very polished, and has a few nice touches (leave your browser sitting on the site for awhile and Tom will do a few cute things to try to draw you back in), I can't help but notice that while the site works under Firefox, it occasionally has some rendering problems. Regardless, if you're looking to be convinced why upgrading to Vista will be a good thing, this is perfect for you.
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Subscribe to commentsjames 42Jun 1st 2006 4:00PM
Couple of hiccups while viewing the site, pretty though. But, like Apple's 'Pro' section, the vignettes show what is special about computers not any one platform. And I think it is a bit funny that Microsoft has to use Flash to make this web site, Apple used QuickTime for theirs.
If you did not no anything about computers and saw these two sites, which do you think you would be drawn to?
Neo-Fight.tvJun 1st 2006 8:33PM
I agree, it looks very polished, but I'd much rather see how vista makes my life better day to day, rather than in these special situations.
Claudiu SpulberJun 2nd 2006 7:59AM
That speaker is Tom Selleck (aka richard from friends)?
PeterJun 2nd 2006 9:53AM
Claudiu - Did you watch the program? The first words out of his mouth are "Thanks for visiting. I'm Tom Skerrit."
FabuloJun 2nd 2006 3:14PM
"Hi, I'm Tom Skerritt, you may remember me from such film as The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer or the See Windows Vista web site. However, I am not, and do not even look like, and just about 12 years older than Tom Seleck. You may remember of Tom Selleck as Magnum P.I. or that hillarious gay character in In & Out."
Check more of me at:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000643/
Also, I really need alot more than that to convince me that transparent eye candy and rotating windows are going to make my life "better".
I would be *totally* happy with Windows 2000 if it had Cleartype(tm) font smoothing. Yes. I'm happy with less.
TroyJun 4th 2006 11:36AM
Windows 2000 does have font smoothing? http://www.microsoft.com/typography/grayscal/smoother.aspx (Other Operating Systems section).
Claudiu SpulberJun 6th 2006 8:04AM
Thanks for the info. Sounds turned off, that's why I didn't hear him. I clicked around for a couple of seconds and got bored.