Windows Vista is coming and, once again, Microsoft is going to sell us old ideas as something new. A lot of changes and improvements are going to be part of this new OS, but it is probably Aero (the new desktop environment based on Avalon, called now Windows Presentation Foundation), its new graphics layer and environment, one of the most important features.
Transparency, 3D elements, xaml (a new xml based language for interface designing)... are just some of these new characteristics. Are they new ? Obviously, no. Mac OS has had some of these new features for a long time, and Linux has now packages that improve its environment with similar or even better possibilities (Xgl for example, from Novell).
As an example, in the following video, you can see a demonstration of Xgl (thanks to Jordi Vicedo for this information). It's a bit long, but it's worthy.
(if you have bandwidth problems, watch all the video until the end, and press 'play' again; normally the cache is going to help you the second time)
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