Comments

1. Bhavana2001

   
   Posted on: January 10, 2007 at 6:54AM

   We are all waiting for windows vista to be launched. It amazing to read about the new features and improvements made on the existing one.
2. mrmckeb

   
   Posted on: January 10, 2007 at 8:59AM

   Why or why does Australia get left out of the WOWSTARTSNOW contest... aren't we cool enough to play?
3. r3m0t

   
   Posted on: January 10, 2007 at 10:21AM

   mrmckeb: I'm not an employee of Microsoft or anything, but competitions are under tight regulations in Canada and this may apply to Australia too. It's difficult for an international company to create a competition which operates legally in many countries.

   Dear Microsoft: the contest "submit" page does not work in Firefox with Adblock Plus. (I get the header and footer graphics with blank space in between.)
4. RyanLM

   
   Posted on: January 10, 2007 at 4:21PM

   I am waiting to be Wowed.  I have RTM, lots of good stuff, good icons, love the new task bar/startmenu, etc.  But, hopefully by RTM MS will have some updates that just fix some issues for users who are not blind.  Window's mail is ugly and hard to read with that dumb blue bar at the top, way too bright, looks terrible.  All the apps have major consistency issues.  Toolbars don’t need to be different colors, they don’t need to be different heights.  Clean it up!!!

   Also, changing the color scheme is useless when the tool bar colors don’t change with it, I mean this across the board.  Also, why is it that the active window always has a neon blue outline no matter what color I have my appearance set to?  The background window changes, but not the active?  This is REALLY basic newbie stuff.  Just open your eyes, and start writing down.  I would love to see Vista become a vision of beauty, not the collage it is now.

   The office team can do this, the xbox team can do this, that fruit company can do this in their sleep, fix fix fix!!!!
5. sunnyc123

   
   Posted on: January 10, 2007 at 7:05PM

   RC1 has seen good improvement. Launch seminars provided a lot of useful info. Hope the real product can get me excited
6. Thomas

   
   Posted on: January 11, 2007 at 3:52AM

   Small note:  the "Loading" message of the http://www.showusyourwow.com/flash.aspx?l=fr-fr Windows Flip contains a mistake in french : "Chargement en cour" : "courS" takes a "S" at the end.
7. VistaIsMyLove

   
   Posted on: January 11, 2007 at 6:56AM

   Hi

   Very Cooooool , Very Nice , Very reliable , Very .... , Very ....  is the new OS

   I really Love Windows , especially Vista and I want to see it on many machines.

   But I have some issues I want to report about Vista Basic UI on some machines - but these machines not very old !? -

   So how I can report these issues or Where ??

   Many thanks
8. dws

   
   Posted on: January 12, 2007 at 1:15PM

   Good Read. The question I have is should i wait to buy a PC or should I buy one now and then upgrade? I want to have the best Vista experience so this is confusing to me.
9. Michael_Moor

   
   Posted on: January 12, 2007 at 5:05PM

   very nice

   http://www.dl4all.com
10. Nick White

    
    Posted on: January 14, 2007 at 7:01PM

    Hey mrmckeb:  Australia will actually be hosting a special local program, so keep an eye out for it.
11. nrshapiro

    
    Posted on: January 17, 2007 at 10:15AM

    I submitted to Show Us Your Wow.  But if Vista behaves like the little window on the Show Us Your wow site, I'm surprised.  I submitted a portrait mode shot, and it's squished.  If that's how people are going to view my wow, I want to delete my submission, but there's no contact address for the contest.  

    Personally, since part of the contest is to wow us with Vista's 3d image browsing, I would think Microsoft would want to fix that.  (Mine wasn't the only shot I saw there that was vertically compressed, aka Squished.

    Take a look and you'll see what I mean.  Who can I contact to unsubmit if MS isn't going to fix that?   (Also, never entered a contest where there was no contact address.  Maybe I'll submit a wow with a picture of a message to the admins?)

    http://showusyourwow.msn.com/?id=24027
12. Nick White

    
    Posted on: January 17, 2007 at 10:28AM

    Hey nrshapiro:  I'll look in to this and get back to you.
13. The Man

    
    Posted on: January 21, 2007 at 3:49PM

    Ohh what about New Zealand, are we having in competition.
14. Traveller35

    
    Posted on: March 03, 2007 at 12:34AM

    I also have a question about the contest. I have registered my .Net passport account in when in Singapore and now I am residing in China whihc one of the qualifying countries. But after I have submitted my photos I searched for all China submissions and couldn't find my pics. So does this mean that my pics will be disqualified? Do I need to signup for a new .net passport account to enter the competition?

    Thanks for your reply.....