Vista does, however, have some nice touches that Tiger doesnt.

The more-advanced Aero Glass option uses translucent window title bars, a handy feature of Mac OS X that Apple dropped with Panther, but is still used in the Dock.

zimages/4/28571.gif Click here to read more about the anticipation of Vistas arrival from the perspective of columnist Steven J. Vista buttons and other interface details have a shiny bulbous look similar to those in Mac OS X. The search icon in the Vista beta is almost identical to Tigers Spotlight icon, except that the magnifying glass turns the other way. In Vista, “My Documents” and “My Computer” are now “Computer” and “Documents,” as they are in Mac OS X. With the first Vista beta, Microsoft seems to have taken many cues from Mac OS X with the user interface and features, right down to some of the terminology.Įven some of Vistas icons are amazingly similar to those in Tiger.įor instance, theres the interface names, Apples Aqua and Microsofts Aero. It is the Intel-ready Leopard, not Tiger, that will be Apples answer to Windows Vista. When Windows Vista ships in late 2006, Windows will mimic many features of Apples Tiger and go beyond it.īut while Microsoft introduces the world to Vista, Apple is keeping mum about its next version of Mac OS X, which Steve Jobs has said will ship at about the same time as Vista.

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