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Are You Ready for Vista Graphics?: Page 3 of 8




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Windows Vista Basic. The sidebar stays transparent, but the window borders go opaque. Obviously a throttled-down 3D graphics experience.




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Windows Standard. Light gray and blue color scheme, sharp-cornered windows, flat buttons. Very much like Windows 2000.




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Windows Classic. It's Windows 98 all over again. Darker grays and blues.




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The eye-candy features of the Aero interface disappear quickly as you move down-scale. Here's the Flip 3D window selector in Aero. It's a tour de force of DirectX 3D graphics programming. The individual window thumbnails grow and shrink as you mouse over them like cards in a Rolodex file.