ClearType anti-aliasing is now enabled across all surfaces by default.

The Windows Aero visual style, which sports a design featuring shiny metallic and glass surfaces, has been added to the operating system it is the default system theme throughout the rest of Vista development and would act as a complete replacement for the legacy Luna visual style, initially present as a development placeholder in builds up to 5059 (vbl_wcp_avalon). The user interface has seen a gradual overhaul over previous builds although parts of the interface are largely similar to its predecessor, a number of changes can be observed across various surfaces. Upgrades from Windows NT 4.0, Windows 98 (including the Second Edition re-release) and Windows Me are no longer supported.

Aside from these minor changes, setup is largely similar to what was found in later pre-reset builds of Longhorn. The ability to load disk drivers has been moved over to the disk partitioning stage, and a progress bar that reports fake percentage information is now shown when Windows is assembling the image and detecting hardware during the second stage of setup.Ī minimum hardware limit of 256 MB of RAM has also been imposed in an effort to reduce the chances of installation failure. The ClearType functionality originally seen in most pre-reset builds has been disabled in the Preinstallation Environment, and stages presented under the initial progress indicator no longer bear a glow effect.

The design of the setup initialization screen has been altered to include the Windows flag. New features and changes Ī majority of features that were added in this build were the result of feature backporting from builds compiled prior to the development reset.Īlthough previous builds of post-reset Vista used the older setup process featured in previous releases of Windows, this build reimplements the newer WIM-based image deployment process from pre-reset Longhorn builds, albeit with several functionality changes.

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