Vista, continued (transparency, protection, Java)

Transparent window borders are extremely pretty



This one was designed to drive you mad: overprotective is seemingly synonymous to secure as far as Microsoft is concerned. Every non-trivial action results in this warning banner... infuriating.



While Java Runtime is being installed, NVidia drivers download. Big question for me was whether OpenGL is really banished from Windows as some people were saying it would be.



Applets are running happily in Firefox with Sun's JVM installed.