Word on the street… I asked 5 people who were mowing their lawns just down the road… is that the latest Pre-RC1 beta of Vista isn’t half bad. They’ve optimised the speed and things are falling into place much more nicely all of a sudden. Thing is however I still don’t feel very excited about it, it still looks like windows to me and a screenshot on Gizmodo reminded me of this perfectly.

Compare these 2 images (no idea if my css is going to cope with 2 images plonked in a post in this fashion). Is it just me, or when you look beyond the nice glass borders and into the actual meat of the standard GUI is it still just a load of boxes? With OSX barely anything looks boxy even in Acivity Monitor, even the boxes don’t look boxy. I know this is just task manager and it isn’t going to be prettified but to me its an indication of how attractive an OS is through and through, when you get past the showcase interfaces.  Who is Craig?