Thread: Windows Vista December CTP

In a year it should be on the shelves: the new Windows operating system "Windows Vista". So before a few days was the third Community Technology Preview (CTP) and beta testers and MSDN subscribers to other sites. We are lucky enough to belong to the elite and want to offer our readers a small-date overview of the Windows XP successor, hereby issue.


The first impression from the evidence advanced status of the Vista development and confirmed the rumors that a "feature-complete" version of Microsoft's internal end of December to be completed. The Windows Sidebar hotly debated this December CTP is not listed and you will to wait until the release of Beta 2 must sound until you can discuss about this feature.




After you let it work the first visual impressions is all about, is interested, has taken much hard drive space to install. Which we use 32-bit version takes a little more than eight gigabyte. Who requires to move information from his former machine, can utilize "Transfer Windows" to take over user a/c, files, program settings, Net settings and favorites, e-mail settings, contacts and messages.


One of the most obvious changes is certainly the Windows-Tab feature in which the open windows are placed in three dimensional space. The function is accessible via a button on the taskbar. In addition, there is now a preview, if you move the mouse over the taskbar located programs. Can now be changed and the DPI setting of the desktop. Lovers of old Windows 2000-style can of course change to this representation. However, since we want to show the transparent windows and new representations, we stay with the hardware-accelerated Aero Glass style.