Windows Aero

Windows Vista is Microsoft's next generation of Windows that's expected to be released to the public in early 2007. One of the features of Windows Vista is Windows Aero, a new user interface and visual style.

Windows Aero is available in all but the lest expensive of the Windows Vista editions, Home Basic. However, Windows Vista uses the Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) to deliver a user interface and style appropriate to the computer's hardware, as the advanced effects in Windows Aero would overwhelm some computers. As a result, not all computers in use today can support Windows Aero. Computers that can run Windows Aero are called Windows Vista Premium Ready PCs; Capable PCs can't run Aero but can run Vista. Computers that can't run Windows Aero will instead use a basic theme for Windows Vista.

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