Part 3: Windows Vista Graphics
EVEN if you don’t know what’s changed behind the screens, it’s quickly apparent to anyone using Windows Vista that this new operating system looks different from older versions of Windows. It’s not just the color scheme, or the rounded buttons, or new graphic for the Start button. Windows Vista uses a completely different graphics model, which makes for wholesale changes in the way Vista looks—and acts.
The most obvious difference between Windows Vista and Windows XP is the graphical user interface (GUI) itself. The XP interface was modern for its time (circa 2001), with gradated title bars and curved window corners, but what was once fresh now looks somewhat dated. In the intervening years, Apple has advanced ...
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