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...café’s regulars (myself included), that statement might seem facetious: Does anyone work at night in the continuously packed café? No. Touché. Freshmen girls giggle at the countertops with their non-fat, sugar-free, mocha chip frozen lattes, biology students converge at desktop computers to browse YouTube instead of their missed lecture videos, and Social Studies 10 types gather in the back with Marx and Durkheim in hand, but who are they kidding...
...little glass microscope slides. Vista - blatantly following the trend set by Apple - represents data as translucent and jewel-like and faintly glowing. Subtle shadows, gleams and animations enhance the illusion. It's just cosmetic stuff, but given how much time one spends there, it's nice when one's desktop doesn't feel like a soul-leaching cubicle. (To assuage the Mac faithful: yes, many of Vista's features are pilfered directly from Mac OS X, and in general Apple has shown itself to be far more efficient and innovative in the operating systems market. Done...
...consistent internal rules that one absorbs without their having to be stated (like in a manual, for example), and I don't see that quite yet in Vista. You don't always instinctively know where the back button will be, or the "close this window" button. If your desktop is overcrowded with windows, you can hit an icon that will line them all up for you, tilted at an angle, so you can pluck out the one that you need. Nice - but at the same time, it breaks with the visual metaphor of a flat desktop...
...about phone calls. Look at the video, which is impressively crisp and sharp. This is the first time the hype about "rich media" on a phone has actually appeared plausible. Look at the e-mail client, which handles attachments, inline images and HTML e-mails as adroitly as a desktop client. Look at the Web browser, a modified version of Safari that displays actual Web pages, not a teensy, deformed version of the Web. There's a Google Maps application that's almost worth the price of admission...
...taken on energy consumption and conservation with more energy-efficient products. We have energy calculators online now, and more and more customers are paying attention to them. You take a typical desktop computer from an old generation and change to a new, more efficient generation, and you can save about $70 per year in energy costs...