Just So My Fellow Vista Haters Know...

...Microsoft has confirmed Windows 7 will hit retail in 2010, so you only have to hang onto XP for 2 1/2 more years.

The story's here; frankly, I have strep throat and therefore am not going to spend much more time on this article, but the original post has 17 screenshots from the new Windows interface, by which I would be far more impressed if it didn't look like - a LOT like - the Beryl interface for Ubuntu Linux.

Here's a video which will give you the idea what the Beryl interface looks like - contrasted with the lame-ass attempt that is Aero for Windows Vista - and when you compare it to those screenshots, the similarities are striking. Hopefully, Microsoft will bring down the hardware requirements, along with the redesign; I don't hold out much hope of that happening, though. Anyway, take a look at Beryl for Ubuntu Linux:

Actually, because Beryl is friggin' cool, take a look at this: this guy's running this on a GeForce 4 Ti4200 graphics card, nowhere NEAR the hardware requirements for Vista with Aero. (As a matter of fact, the Ti4200 is nearly 7 years old.)



And here's another demonstration of the amazing capacities in Beryl... that Windows doesn't have, even on far more advanced hardware.



I guess what I'm trying to get at here is that if Microsoft is gonna steal from someone, they could do worse than to steal from Linux, since Linux actually works.