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Re: Windows Media Player 11 Download Official It isn't just WMP11 with the Vista interface. All new things for XP have the
Vista interface like IE7, Defender, OneCare, Office 2007. So the question is
will Microsoft update the XP interface?
"Homer J. Simpson" <root@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
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> So I have it installed on one of my XP boxes, and I gotta say...whatever
> happened to MS being so hardcore on consistent UIs?
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> I now have MP11's Vista look running side-by-side with XP's Fisher Price
> look. Great combo. Even with the OS in Windows Classic mode MP11 still
> uses the Vista look.
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> One of my biggest Vista gripes about its UI in general has always been
> that it's *very* hard for a novice to tell which window currently has
> focus. Now MS wants to backport Vista's UI to XP?
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> Years of MS's own usability studies out the window, I say.
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