I’m shocked. Today I visited Marcin Gorny’s blog. Beside of other interests, he is a beta tester of Microsoft products.
Now, take a look at those screenshots. Screenshot 1, Screenshot 2, Screenshot 3, Screenshot 4.
Notice that this is slightly modified Windows XP.
Now, thanks to the magic, in 15 minutes you can do almost the same amount of work as Microsoft did in 5 years! Marcin published the full step-by-step description on how to modify WinXP into Vista look&feel.
Now. Tell me. If we can agree that you can have WindowsXP looks like Vista. What Microsoft, the biggest IT company in the world, did between year 2001 and 2006 when they were/are working on Windows Vista?
Is that the same as they’re doing with IE7? The same old Trident, and a bunch of code that was previously coded for Maxthon?
I’m wondering if it’s possible to legally create customized build of Windows XP so it looks like Vista and sell it in WinXP price.