Some helpful Vista screen shots

More and more people are asking me about Vista these days. You know, it’s really not all that different from Windows XP. However, you will notice a few different things about the user interface. For example, the Ctrl-Alt-Delete screen is a lot prettier:

And they even show you your picture when you put in your password:

The Start menu isn’t labeled Start anymore, but it’s the same basic idea:

As you can see, you occasionally get some warning messages. But the Microsoft team has taken pains to make them much more understandable by the lay person:

Note: all screen shots above are unretouched, and I didn’t do anything special to make Vista behave like this. All I had done was log off and log on again. Fortunately, after a restart things are back to normal.