Whoopy. (No exclamation point!)

I”m not sure why everyone seems to be praising the “cool new graphics” in the Windows Vista Aeroglass graphical interface.

It has transparency, where you can look through one application to see another.

It has widgets, small applications that you can run, and a task bar just for them.

It requires a hog of a video card, which will be the single blocking item for most people (Put a $300 video card in a computer worth $300? No way!) Windows computers today are definitely and example of where the whole is not worth the sum of the parts.

Anyway, back to the Aero graphics…

In 1993, I had transparent applications in OS/2 — and the transparency level was controlled by the desktop, the applications didn”t have to be written to support it like they will have to be for Vista.

I had widgets and a task bar. And, it was on 1992 hardware, including 1992-level graphics cards. Remember them? They can”t even run Windows XP today.

All I had was OS/2 version 3 and a cool third-party desktop called Stardock Desktop…

So, what”s all the great noise aboue?

Why do I want Vista? That”s like stepping back 12 years!