Windows Vista Observations

Following up on my first impressions, here is a list of observations according to beta 2.

• Notepad’s icon has changed
• Start button is circular without text
• Search boxes all over
• Buttons look widescreen
• Font smoothing is on by default
• Internet Explorer 7+ for Vista, 7 for others
• IE anti-phishing

• IE tabs
• Paint icon has changed
• Color palette is on top
• Save dialog looks different
• Default save format is PNG (yay, no more BMPs)
• Windows DVD Maker is new
• Feels very snappy on my Dell Inspiron 300m, 1.2 GHz Pentium M, 632 MB AM, 15 GB HDD (NTFS Partition for Vista)
• Windows Sidebar is exactly like Google Desktop Sidebar
• Especially the random images
• Windows Vista won’t connect to my wireless network, but it worked on second try (repair)