As mentioned in the previous post, I upgraded to Vista Ultimate last night, and then somewhere on the ‘Net I read about Internet Explorer 8 (I’ve been following the news of it when I see it). And I have to say - it’s pretty much the same though the Back & Forward buttons have been moved and altered slightly.

I can’t post a proper review of it because I use Firefox 3 as my main browser, but I might give it a try and see if I find any interesting bug’s (or “features”) when I’m using it. Microsoft have included an “Emulate IE7″ button, which should render a page EXACTLY as IE7 does, though I’ve found Xbox.com doesn’t render correctly (I think this may be due to an issue with Flash not being installed correctly in my IE8 install though)

I also noticed just before publishing this, that the top level domain is highlighted different, it’s displayed like this:

And then if you hover the mouse over it, the whole URL becomes black (I assume this is for readability).

As I mentioned earlier I received the disc’s for Microsoft Office 2007 earlier, and I didn’t expect them to be full retail versions of the disc’s or anything, I expected OEM versions. Either way, the first disc is all fancy and what-not (there’s an image below) and the 2nd is just a plain silver disc.

I’m currently using Vista Service Pack 1, and I have to say…it’s not much different.

I’m well aware that there’s many change’s ‘behind the scenes’ which make improvements here and there. But to the end user, there’s not really much difference, except the disappearance of the “Search” option on the Start Menu.

I also have service pack 1 for Office 2007 (Ultimate Edition) and I haven’t really noticed anything different about that. Speaking of Office, I received my back-up disks today I only wanted them because I knew they’d be official printed disk’s

Anyway, The purpose of this post is just to show exactly how customisable Linux actually is

Somebody I know from the Ubuntu Forums Beginners Team (ajmorris_) has this for a desktop:

I have to say that on customising - Linux beats Windows