Wow…I’ve never seen anything like this before. Very realistic cracks in the vista interface are rendered in this creative visual style. Finally breaking into new territory.

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Check out this unique japanese screensaver where girls in polo tops and jeans dance in short 5 second bursts. Hugely popular since its release last year.

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Quote: You may not be able to find an Xbox 360 in the stores, but now you can have the Xbox 360 Suite on your desktop! Created to celebrate the next-generation gaming and entertainment console from Microsoft, the Xbox 360 Suite includes a WindowBlinds skin with four substyles, custom IconPackage and an original wallpapers.

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Pleasantly coloured theme that really does bring out a pastel feel. Certainly goes well with the wallpaper in the screenshot.

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Ubuntu Clearlooks inspired visual style for Windows Vista. Soft sky blues and whites form a pleasant, well constructed visual style.

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This visual style has a smokey gray and black finish with a touch of glass….nicely done.

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The ad, which has just aired for the first time in the US, shows Microsoft founder Bill Gates and comedian Jerry Seinfeld trying to “reconnect with real people” by moving in with a “normal” family.

It features Gates doing the robot dance and reading bedtime stories while Seinfeld – who was paid $US10 million for his part in the campaign – becomes embroiled in family politics.

The ad has been interpreted as a metaphor for what Microsoft is trying to achieve with the campaign. Whereas Apple’s “I’m a Mac” ads have been interpreted as an elitist Mac user bashing an ordinary PC user, the Microsoft ad positions the company as connecting with ordinary people…

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Have the tables turned? Decide for yourselves…here are 40 pretty good reasons to switch back to Microsoft Vista.

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The latest Windows packs a lot of code — more than any version of Windows ever — and some of it is just plain unnecessary. All of that excess code has a way of slowing down an operating system. You can regain some PC performance by removing unneeded features.

Computeruser identified a dozen Vista features that you can turn off right now. Some are shiny baubles that slow down graphics performance, while others are optional utilities that hog memory when they shouldn’t. A few can actually be quite useful, though they play a major role in bogging down your PC…

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Lifehacker has written a tutorial for stripping your Vista installation down to the bare essentials and copying files over to a USB drive which has much faster transfer rates. This tutorial is especially useful for Administrators who are constantly installing Vista on multiple systems.

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