Filed under: Windows, Microsoft
Windows XP and Vista side-by-side
by Jordan Running Jan 11th 2006
So we've seen a thousand screenshots and feature summaries of Windows Vista, and Microsoft is calling it
"largest upgrade since Windows 95," but how does it really compare to XP? BentUser has a cool article that compares Windows XP with Vista Build 5270 side by side, in
particular the Start menu, the task switcher, My Computer, the Control Panel, and the bundled apps. Whether or not
Vista will be a success is anybody's guess (though if they can make it fast and stable—a big if—I suspect
it will), but regardless Redmond seem to be up to some interesting stuff.
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, ...
