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Paul Thurrott on the newest Windows Vista builds
by Jordan Running Apr 24th 2006 at 4:50PM
Genuine 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.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
