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Paul Thurrott on the newest Windows Vista builds

Windows Vista
build 5365Genuine Windows enthusiast Paul Thurrott keeps us constantly supplied with new info and screenshots from Redmond, and this week over at his Windows SuperSite he's posted his review and screenshot gallery of the most recent build of Windows Vista, 5365. This is the last build of Vista before Beta 2, and Thurrott says, "Windows Vista is, overall, a huge improvement over Windows XP," which has been his opinion all along. However, he expresses a bit of frustration, saying, "in many ways, the Windows Vista we're going to get late 2006 fails to match the excitement Microsoft generated," and that "the reality of Windows Vista, like most things in life, is that there's good and bad. It's not perfect. But it's not a complete dog either." The screenshots are nothing too different from what we've been seeing, but you can get a peek at a few of Vista's desktop background and screensavers.
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