The newest version of Windows arrived early for Jirnsum, one of our members, yesterday. The much awaited and highly promoted Windows Vista is set to be released on January 30th, but he managed to get a hold of it a week earlier! There’s quite a few new features in Vista, including a very polished Graphical User Interface named Aero, and many new security features.

At first look, Jirnsum’s reviews are quite good:

Eyecandy is ofcourse the most obvious, but one can also see MS did some serious work in the safety department. Even an administrator cannot “just change” system settings, which also means a virus infecting an administrator account can’t do that.

He didn’t notice any significant slowdowns or lag, compared to Windows XP, either.

So the initial reviews are good, but we are still all wondering if the newest Windows will live up to all the hype that Microsoft has placed on it, and most people here at Simphoni are not planning on upgrading right away. In any case, Jirnsum has posted some screenshots and a lot of interesting info for us, so check it out!

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