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Last Chance: Final Release Candidate of Vista on Friday
Friday will mark the last Release Candidate for Windows Vista. According to DailyTech, it will be released for “...beta testers, MSDN and TechNet subscribers.” The final code of Vista will then be set by November 8 at the latest (hey, the day before my birthday!)
You know I’ll be first in line Friday to download build 5743. I’ll try and write something about it. Hopefully they get all of the icons replaced, as they are so close, but there are a couple prominent ones that need to be changed out.
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http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=4409
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Control-TAB to move between windows within on MDI window. No Thumbnails but you don’t really need them for MDI.
Flip3D works great now that they’ve taken feedback and made the neccessary improvements. If you don’t try to use it like Exposé (by using it with the mouse) then it makes much more sense and it much faster for people who perfer keyboard shortcuts to using the mouse. You shouldn’t judge it based on a commment I made about a Beta 1 build, especially sense you haven’t used it’s current iteration.
I do want thumbnails in MDI. That’s the point. It lets me identify my documents very quickly. Exposé is wonderful at this. I use Exposé all the time inside applications.
For most of the applications I use (every Adobe/Macromedia application, for example), Flip and Flip3D are useless for switching between documents.
Flip3D is pointless, IMHO. So take ALT TAB in XP and instead of having your screen presented to you full screen as you sequence through pressing ALT TAB, we tilt it in 3D space? OK, for what purpose?
It’s Time Machine, Dock zooming...pointless eye candy that doesn’t make me more productive.
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I like how the Explorer has key word features, and the file dialogs too. I hope Leopard has it. If it does, I fully expect an “Apple copied Microsoft!” comment from you or UnDunn and will completely appreciate it.
I like the Bread Crumb bar thing but would rather have Column View instead. It’s still an improvement over XP and I like it.
I like the new Flip, though every single Adobe application I have won’t utilize it (thumbnails of documents) since they are MDI.
Flip3D is still stupid, like Kuaidang said months ago. Time Machine’s UI is stupid, and so is Flip3D...for the same reason.
(I’d prefer Time Machine to be integrated with Spotlight so if I want the document “my logo.ai” from 4 months ago, I just type that in Spotlight and I get a “Time Machine” category in my Spotlight results sorted by date, etc. Great example of how it should work—if I have a layer inside a Photoshop file and that layer has a logo in it and the layer is called “My Logo”, but two months ago I deleted that layer and saved the file...what do I do? Well, wouldn’t it be cool if I did a search in Spotlight for the name of that layer and then the “Time Machine” category in Spotlight shows me that file? I don’t like manually browsing a “Fisher Price” user interface. I don’t have Leopard, so it could end up being great, but I doubt it.)
I still hate the Task Bar and how it truncates the name when I (always) get too many task buttons. I still have to play “Where’s Waldo” with this OS when looking for the documents I’m working on. Different SDI/MDI behaviors with applications makes this worse because I have to work two completely different ways in the same OS.
I hope Vista makes more sense with the system preference dialogs. Windows XP is a plethora of “Advanced Properties” buttons underneath “Properties” buttons vomited across dozens of different tabs. Check out the XP print dialog (they are all different, really) and see how the paper tray option is in a completely different spot than the other print options.
All in all, it’s better than XP. Much better. I look forward to leaving XP behind.