Nemo: Like Front Row for Windows
- October 3rd, 2006
- 6 Comments
Microsoft knows how to take a technology and drive it into the ground. Take Nemo, a front end for Windows Live that includes Spaces, Messenger, and Live Call. The interface is designed for widescreen televisions and monitors and includes a Front Row-esque lazy susan system of picking out folks to contact. It uses the new Vista presentation layer to make things look like Minority Report on speed.
I’ve heard a lot of talk about how Vista is essentially OS X, and that’s true, but it’s high time that a lot of the fancy UI stuff that Mac users take for granted ended up in the most popular OS in the world. Eye candy sells PCs and Vista is going to be the sweetest of them all.
Avatar (Who am I?)
1 year ago
more like front row + mci + vista = total awesome
you talk about front row as if MCE were not way better than it as it is…
webonics (Who am I?)
1 year ago
This is definitely a kick-@ss interface. I’m looking forward to the launch of Vista and taking full advantage of the Aero Glass UI.
Mark (Who am I?)
1 year ago
…Vista is going to be the sweetest of them all… I like that, you mean when (if) they actually release it to the public, and if your machine has a beefy 3D graphics card and a good chunk of RAM. I’d have to disagree - eye candy doesn’t sell computers, a consistant reliable user experience sells computers which is one area in which Mac OS X is unrivalled.
Redmond have their photocopiers going full tilt to make Vista _look like_ OS X, but underneath it’s still millions of lines of Windows.
Osho Studios (Who am I?)
1 year ago
When Windows vista comes out its going to exellent, but I’m going to keep a partition for windows xp because I really like it. Windows Vista will be a nice video editing and graphics design OS. From what I’ve been seeing its very stable.